Liberman says he thinks police did him wrong too, wants state commission

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman says he wants to probe whether NSO spying tech was used by police against him in the past when he was investigated over a decade ago.

Liberman was charged with breach of trust and fraud in 2012 but eventually beat the charges.

“Anyone who knows the facts knows that we’re talking about serious violations done back then, and the police commissioner acted like the worst of the criminals. There was no law he did not break,” he charges.

Liberman says if true, the allegations that the phones of government officials, advisers, politicians’ family members and others were allegedly hacked, would be “an earthquake on the level of a 9 on the Richter scale.”

Liberman backs the creation of a state inquiry into the matter, joining other ministers who have suddenly upped their rhetoric and vowed to look into the scandal.

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier called the allegations an earthquake, but did not specify the Richter scale severity.

The government has sprung into action hours after Calcalist reported Monday morning that politicians had been among those hacked, weeks after allegations first arose of police spying on innocent civilians and aides to Netanyahu, a former prime minister on trial for graft.