Police interrogate former Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman on suspicion of making threats against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the premier filed a police complaint accusing him of blackmail.
Netanyahu made the complaint after Argaman threatened to reveal compromising information about the prime minister during a TV interview.
Argaman told Channel 12 news that he has “a great deal of knowledge” about Netanyahu that he can put to use, but said he is “currently keeping everything that happened between myself and the prime minister” out of the public sphere.
However, he warned that he will reveal everything he knows should “the State of Israel or if I conclude that the prime minister has decided that he is going to act in contradiction to the law.”
Netanyahu then filed a complaint accusing Argaman of threatening him with “criminal use of information he gained within the framework of his role in the Shin Bet agency.”
After announcing that they were checking the former security official’s statements, law enforcement on Sunday summoned Argaman for questioning, which he showed up for today, according to Hebrew news outlets.
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