A former friend of scandal-embroiled Likud MK Oren Hazan, appearing on Channel 2 with a blurred face and distorted voice, recalls times in Burgas, Bulgaria, where Hazan had “marijuana and crystal meth and we sniffed it.”
Asked whether Hazan also partook, the man says “yeah, totally.”
“I can say with certainty that I remember one case where I was sitting with a guy… actually two guys, one of them came to Oren really naturally and asked – ‘can you get me a girl for tonight?’ and Oren was like ‘yeah, consider it done’,” says the man, who adds that he is willing to take a lie detector test.
“Everything that drives Oren Hazan is this swagger: ‘I’ll take care of you, I’ll take care of everything’,” he recounts.
Likud parliament member Oren Hazan attends a Finance Committee meeting in the Knesset on June 8, 2015. (Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
He says he was deeply hurt by Hazan’s behavior, and without going into details says “many more” people were hurt by his conduct. “He hurts people in the most disgraceful, lowly way possible… What they say about him now is only the tip of the iceberg.”
Asked about Hazan’s denying the details of the report on his conduct, the man says “he is lying, everyone who knows him knows it’s an inseparable part of his personality, he’s a pathological liar. I think he even believes his own lies because he can be quite convincing.”
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