President Isaac Herzog’s office says that he has received the pardon request from the IDF reservist charged in the security documents scandal that has roiled the Prime Minister’s Office in recent weeks.
Herzog’s office has begun “looking into the matter,” says the President’s Residence.
The statement adds that “the president has full confidence in the legal system and the request will be examined and reviewed like all requests submitted to the President’s Residence.”
The noncommissioned officer, who has not been identified, was charged together with Eli Feldstein, an aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The officer was charged with transferring classified information, an offense that is punishable by seven years in prison, as well as theft and obstruction of justice.
His lawyers wrote to Herzog asking for a pardon, saying he “understood that his acts were forbidden and would not repeat them.”
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