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Thursday, November 14, 2024
Gag order lifted: PM’s chief of staff suspected of forgery, illegally altering records
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
Tzachi Braverman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, is suspected of forgery and illegally altering records in the Prime Minister’s Office held by the prime minister’s military secretary relating to Netanyahu’s activities in the very first minutes of the October 7 Hamas invasion, Hebrew media outlets report, after a court lifts a gag order on the affair.
Braverman is suspected of having altered the stated time at which Netanyahu first received an update via phone call from the prime minister’s military secretary about the situation, changing it from 6:40 a.m. to 6:29 a.m, Ynet reports.
Braverman was questioned under caution by the Lahav 433 major crimes unit of the police for three hours today regarding his role in the scandal.
An investigation into the allegations was opened after the military secretary at the time, Maj. Gen. Avi Gil, sent a memo to the attorney general over the matter, Channel 13 has reported.
Allegations that Braverman blackmailed an IDF officer to alter the records by threatening him with a delicate video recording have not yet been investigated.
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