Securities Authority: Filber’s phone was legally seized when he was questioned, not bugged or hacked

The Israel Securities Authority dismisses an earlier Channel 12 report, according to which an ISA investigator apparently indicated to state’s witness Shlomo Filber that his phone had been remotely accessed with spyware.

The ISA clarifies that Filber’s phone was seized, in accordance with the law, when he was questioned as a suspect over allegations relating to the Bezeq telecommunications firm in 2017; it was not bugged or hacked.

An ISA spokesperson says the phone was seized and searched with an official warrant.

“The transcript in question [published earlier by Channel 12] relates to an investigation from July 2017 as part of the Bezeq case… There was no use of wiretapping in the case at all, and Shlomo Filber’s mobile device was confiscated and searched under the authority of a standard search warrant, as is regularly done in criminal probes,” the spokesperson says.

His phone was legally confiscated during that investigation, also known as Case 4000.