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AG tells High Court that Likud MK’s parliamentary immunity should be nixed
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAttorney General Avichai Mandelblit says the Knesset lacked the authority to grant Likud MK Haim Katz parliamentary immunity and should therefore cancel the decision.
“The Knesset’s decision to grant immunity to MK Haim Katz is void and lacks validity because it is defected by an erroneous application of the grounds for immunity,” Mandelblit writes in response to a High Court petition against the decision to grant Kantz immunity.
Katz was facing charges of fraud and breach of trust when the Knesset voted to give him immunity in February, saying he carried out the alleged actions in “good faith” and as part of his work as an MK.
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