Channel 12 reports that police are slated to summon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military secretary, Ronen Gofman, to answer questions in the ongoing case into the alleged misconduct of the premier’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman.
Braverman is accused of having told a fellow Netanyahu aide that he could obstruct an IDF probe into the leak of classified documents by the Prime Minister’s Office.
Police initially believed that Braverman was tipped off on the investigation by someone close to the IDF chief of staff. But after investigating further, police came to the conclusion that Braverman learned about the probe through his standard work in the premier’s office, Channel 12 says.
Accordingly, police want to question Gofman regarding how he is handling classified information in the prime minister’s office, the network.
For now, Gofman is only being summoned to provide testimony, and is not a suspect in the case.
Gofman has been tapped by Netanyahu to be the next head of the Mossad, though he still has to be approved by the civil service commission, which is looking into allegations of past misconduct.
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