Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is reportedly expected to announce her decision to file an indictment, subject to a hearing, against Tzachi Braverman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, in the coming weeks.
According to a Channel 12 report, police have completed their investigation into Braverman. The official is suspected of having interfered with an investigation into Eli Feldstein, a former spokesman for the premier, over his alleged leak of a classified document to the German newspaper Bild.
Despite his proximity to the case, Netanyahu never gave testimony to investigators. Police made repeated efforts to coordinate with the premier, allowing him to pick any date and time for the testimony, but never managed to bring him in, the outlet says.
Police suspect that Braverman set up a nighttime meeting with Feldstein in the underground parking lot of the IDF’s Kirya military headquarters, where he both informed the former spokesman of the investigation into him and said he could put a stop to it.
The case has been passed to the State Attorney’s Office without Netanyahu’s testimony, according to Channel 12.
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