Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slams Channel 13 after it reported that state prosecutors were drafting a legal opinion recommending he stand trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust as originally planned.
Responding to the television report, Netanyahu describes it as “another tendentious leak that severely impairs the public confidence in the [legal] system.”
“Only in a field trial do they publish the conclusions before discussing the facts and arguments,” Netanyahu says in a statement.
During his pre-indictment hearing earlier this month, Netanyahu’s lawyers sought to have some of the charges dropped, but Channel 13 said prosecutors were urging Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to keep the original proposed charges intact, namely bribery, fraud and breach of trust in the so-called Case 4000, as well as fraud and breach of trust in Cases 1000 and 2000.
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