Channel 2 news reports that a recording of Netanyahu and Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes was made at the prime minister’s request.
Earlier Sunday Channel 2 news said that Mozes was the businessman reported to have conducted negotiations with Benjamin Netanyahu to receive benefits in exchange for helping the prime minister remain in power.
According to a report Sunday in the daily Haaretz, officers are in possession of “a series” of audio recordings of Netanyahu that appear to corroborate the suspicions, part of a mysterious investigation whose details have remained hazy.
Ari Harow, former chief of staff of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a Likud meeting in the Israeli parliament, November 24, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Channel 2 now reports that Ari Harow, Netanyahu’s former chief of staff, recorded the conversations between Netanyahu and Mozes, at the prime minister’s request. The recording was apparently uncovered by police during a separate investigation into Harow on suspicion of fraud.
A spokesman representing Harow declined a Times of Israel request for comment.
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