Police chief nominee denies meeting with polygraph examiner to get help with test

The government nominee for the next Israel Police commissioner denies a report that says he concealed from a key vetting committee a meeting he held with the woman who gave him a polygraph test in order to prepare for the exam.

Maj. Gen. Moshe “Chico” Edri says in a statement to Hebrew media the meeting with the polygraph examiner concerned a “medical inquiry” and was not meant to help him pass the test.

“Maj. Gen. Edri did not know the examiner and never retained her services, but met her as a certified examiner of polygraph tests,” the statement says.

It also says the meeting was held before the vetting committee decided he must undergo a polygraph.

“This is a campaign of slander and media persecution,” the statement says of the Walla news site’s report on Edri concealing the meeting from the nominations panel.