MK Karin Elharar, who heads the Knesset Ethics Committee, calls for the attorney general to open an investigation into the claims of wrongdoing detailed by a state comptroller report.
“These findings are very harsh and testify to political and possibly even criminal corruption,” she says in a statement. “The report shows more than anything the lack of honest values, transparency and good governance by parties that have primaries.”
Elharar’s Yesh Atid party does not hold primaries and was not included in the report.
The only allegation of possible criminal wrongdoing in the report was leveled against Likud MK Oren Hazan for lying to the comptroller about his campaign financing.
Others were fined in the report for smaller issues with raising and reporting money.
Earlier in the day, Hazan was suspended for a month by the Ethics Committee for comments he made mocking Elharar for a physical disability.
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