The State Comptroller rejects Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for permission to have wealthy associates pay his legal fees in a serious of corruption investigations.
“The financing of legal outlays arising from a criminal investigation, which includes a suspicion of criminal acts in connection with various wealthy people, should not be done by wealthy people,” the ombudsman’s Permits Committee writes in its decision.
Netanyahu had requested that Nathan Milikowsky, his cousin, and American millionaire Spencer Partrich pay his legal fees in three separate criminal probes that involve suspicions he advanced the interests of businessmen in return for gifts and positive media coverage.
Police have recommended Netanyahu be indicted in the investigations, which are known as cases 1000, 2000 and 4000.
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