Comptroller: PM, Communications Ministry didn’t disclose conflicts of interest to AG

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Communications Ministry failed to disclose possible conflicts of interest connected to Bezeq chairman Shaul Elovitz, the state comptroller says in a report released today.

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira says Communications Ministry Director-General Shlomo Filber “acted unprofessionally and without justification” by failing to disclose his and Netanyahu’s personal relationship with Elovitz when asked by the attorney general in 2015.

The Israel Securities Authority is investigating Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecommunications firm, on suspicions of securities fraud.

Earlier today, the ISA said Filber had been interrogated by police for several hours. No further information was released due to an court-imposed gag order.