Former attorney general Avichai Mandelblit blocked police requests to tap into the phones of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son and wife, Ynet reports.
An unnamed former senior police investigator tells the website that as part of the criminal investigations into Netanyahu, cops asked to wiretap Yair and Sara Netanyahu.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, together with their son Yair at a Hanukkah event, on December 13, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
“We had zero access to electronic media, at the office and at home. Mandelblit didn’t authorize it,” the unnamed ex-cop says. “We asked to listen in — the attorney general blocked it.”
“We kept saying that Sara is clobbering us in the questioning, and we can’t even check her phone, to see if she said what she claims, or wrote what she claims, in areas tied to the probe,” the official says. “We did not get permission to request court orders to wiretap them, and we kept complaining that we were being handicapped and our hands were being tied.”
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