The Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s court grants a police request to impose a further gag-order on all details relating to the so-called Case 3000 investigation into alleged corruption and bribery involved in multi-billion-shekel naval deals with the German shipbuilding company ThyssenKrupp.
Miki Ganor is seen at a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court following his arrest in the ‘Case 3000’ affair on July 10, 2017. (Moti Kimchi/Pool/Flash90)
The unusually long 90-day gag order covers all details relating to state’s witness Miki Ganor, ThyssenKrupp’s Israeli agent, including any plea bargain he may have made with the state prosecution, and all details from other testimony collected in the case so far, or set to be collected until March 27, 2018.
A number of high-profile public figures close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are currently suspects in the case, including his personal lawyers David Shimron and Isaac Molcho, the former deputy head of the National Security Council Avriel Bar-Yosef and the former commander of the Israeli Navy Maj. Gen. (res) Eliezer Marom.
Netanyahu is not a suspect in the case. However, police are planning to summon him to testify on what he knows about the issue.
— Raoul Wootliff
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