Deputy AG: Investigations into Netanyahu will take time

Deputy Attorney General Shai Nitzan warns completing the corruption investigations into Netanyahu will take time.

“This isn’t a one- or two-day thing, but, at the same time, I hope that it won’t be several months,” Nitzan says according to reports in Hebrew-language media.

“As everyone knows, two investigations have been opened, both of which are complicated and police have been working on them for many months,” he says. “No stone must be left unturned.”

Nitzan, speaking at an event in Jerusalem, says that several key people connected to the cases are abroad, slowing down the investigations.

The prime minister is suspected of accepting expensive gifts from wealthy businessmen in exchange for favors, known as Case 1000, and on a separate investigation, dubbed Case 2000, which involves Netanyahu’s alleged negotiations with the publisher of the Yedioth Aharonoth daily, Arnon Mozes, to advance legislation to hobble the paper’s rival — the Sheldon Adelson-controlled Israel Hayom — in exchange for more favorable coverage from Yedioth.

Netanyahu denies all the charges against him.