AG said set to indict prisons chief for obstructing probe into senior cop

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has decided to file an indictment against Prison Service Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi, after nearly a year of deliberation on the matter, Hebrew media reports.

Yaakobi will be charged with breach of trust and obstructing an investigation. He is suspected of informing Avishai Muallem, a former senior police detective in the West Bank, of a covert probe in which he was a suspect.

In July, the State Attorney’s Office first announced it was considering filing charges, subject to a hearing, against the top warden.

Muallem, who has since been indicted, was being probed on suspicion of papering over investigations into Jewish nationalist violence in a bid to curry favor with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

Yaakobi, who served as Ben Gvir’s security secretary at the time before moving to the Prison Service, is suspected of leaking the probe’s existence to Muallem over a wiretapped phone call.

He implied last year that he would resign if indicted.