Netanyahu prosecutor says no trial evidence was gathered illicitly

Ronit Tirosh, the lead prosecutor in the trial against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says she’s confident that no evidence used in the case was obtained illegally.

“We’re confident the documents we have were gathered according to legal and legitimate orders,” she says, according to Haaretz.

Police are accused of hacking the phones of several figures tied to Case 4000, in which the former premier is accused of advancing regulatory favors in exchange for positive coverage from a news site owned by Shaul Elovitch, the former controlling shareholder of Bezeq, who is accused in the case along with his wife.

Tirosh says that police probing other alleged offenses by Netanyahu did not need a separate court order to gather evidence in Case 4000 as it “all rolled up into one criminal affair, in our view.”

Netanyahu is also accused in two other cases, involving an alleged quid pro quo with a newspaper owner and for receiving gifts from wealthy benefactors.

“We believe there was no problem with the order,” she says.