Police suspect ex-military advocate general Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who resigned on Friday over a leak scandal, may have disposed of her cellphone in the sea yesterday, the Haaretz daily reports.
Tomer-Yerushalmi has admitted that she leaked a video to the media last year that purportedly showed soldiers severely abusing a Palestinian security detainee at the Sde Teiman military detention facility.
Tomer-Yerushalmi and the military’s former chief prosecutor, Col. Matan Solomosh, are due in court later today after they were detained yesterday.
Media reports said the two were suspected of obstruction of justice over the leak of the abuse video and an alleged subsequent cover-up regarding an internal investigation.
Tomer-Yerushalmi went missing on Sunday for several hours, with her car found near a Tel Aviv beach, before she was located alive and well.
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