Police seek to extend remand of suspects in Bezeq fraud

18 February 2018, 4:44 pm

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Police are asking a court to extend the remand of senior officials in the Bezeq phone company and two close associates of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who were arrested over the weekend in a graft probe.

Police want them held for a further eight days.

They were detained over the weekend after a “dramatic” development was reported in the case. The associates cannot be named due to a gag order on the case.

“Following evidence discovered by the Israel Securities Authority in the investigation of the Bezeq case, which raised suspicions that additional offenses had been committed, a new investigation was initiated this morning by investigators from the authority and from Lahav 433,” police said, referring to the police anti-fraud unit.