Three opposition MKs turn to Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit to demand that he remove MK Oren Hazan’s parliamentary immunity so that he can be investigated on suspicion of “pimping.”
In a ruling issued earlier in the day, Judge Azaria Elkalai said that Hazan had taken crystal meth, but said it could not be proved that Hazan had provided prostitutes to friends or customers of a casino he was managing in Bulgaria. Still, he threw out Hazan’s libel suit against Channel 2 for reporting as much about Hazan.
In their letter to Mandelblit, MKs Zehava Galon, Michal Rozin and Tamar Zandberg, all of the left-wing Meretz party, note that “pimping and soliciting prostitution are illegal in Israel as well as in Bulgaria.”
They add that there is “great” public importance to an investigation of Hazan.
“We cannot stand by when an elected official is suspected of offenses that carry not only criminal penalties but also legal and moral turpitude, and continues to retain his public office,” they say.
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