Netanyahu: Comptroller report 'another attempt to create scandal'

Netanyahu reportedly responds to a state comptroller report that determined the prime minister acted improperly when serving as Communications Minister when he failed to report his close friend and Bezeq head Shaul Elovitz as a possible conflict of interest.

In a statement, Netanyahu’s office says the comptroller report was “another futile attempt to create a scandal against the prime minister out of thin air,” according to Channel 10.

It says Netanyahu and Elovitz “are on friendly terms but nothing more,” and that “all the decisions he made regarding the communications market were for the benefit of the public alone.”