Mandelblit defends handling of Netanyahu cases, says ‘nobody is above the law’

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit denies any political bias in his office’s handling of the criminal investigations into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“There is no bias or persecution against the prime minister, and certainly nobody is being framed,” he says according to the Ynet news site. “These allegations are nonsense and are designed to delegitimize law enforcement.”

Mandelblit says there is “great importance” to the pre-indictment hearing process, and says that the decisions made in regard to Netanyahu’s cases so far prove “the supreme status of the rule of law in Israel.”

“Nobody is above the law,” he says.

Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing in all three corruption cases, and claims the investigations are a “witch hunt” involving the left, the media and the police, relentlessly pressuring a “weak” attorney general.