Levin claims AG’s objection to his complaint against Supreme Court chief is part of illicit deal between the two

Justice Minister Yariv Levin lambastes Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara after the latter said his disciplinary complaint against Supreme Court President Isaac Amit is factually baseless and “legally invalid,” alleging without evidence that the attorney general’s letter is part of an illicit quid-pro-quo deal with Amit.

In a statement, Levin says he “categirically rejects” Baharav-Miara’s letter, calling it “one big criminal offense.”

“The letter is a grave and extreme example of conflict of interest,” he charges, claiming that Baharav-Miara only objects to the complaint — and didn’t look into allegations regarding Amit’s construction offenses — as a personal favor to the Supreme Court chief, after the latter previously backed a High Court of Justice ruling that nullified the government’s firing of her.

The court made that ruling after the government failed to oust Baharav-Miara using the legally established procedure, and legislated a new method in order to fire her.

Levin also claims that Baharav-Miara is beholden to Amit since the latter refused to tap an official to oversee the investigation into the leak by the military advocate general of a video of IDF soldiers allegedly abusing a Palestinian detainee, to “prevent the search for truth” regarding her own alleged part in the saga.

Levin vows to continue pursuing his disciplinary complaint.