Report: AG gives PM’s wife till end of week to provide sum of state funds she’s willing to return

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has given Sara Netanyahu’s legal team until the end of the week to provide state prosecutors with the sum of money she is willing to return, in a plea deal to stave off the possible prosecution for misuse of funds at the Prime Minister’s Residence, Hadashot news reports.

State prosecutors were said to have originally recommended that the prime minister’s wife pay NIS 200,000 ($56,128) and confess to the charges, in exchange for no indictment against her.

Netanyahu rejected the offer, reportedly saying that she would rather go to jail than reimburse the state.

Her attorneys were said to have then offered that their client reimburse the state with NIS 50,000 ($14,032), which prosecutors rejected outright.

According to Hadashot news, Mandelblit is fed up with how long efforts to reach a deal have dragged out, and has now handed down an ultimatum to Netanyahu’s legal team in order for his office to decide whether to close the probe against her.

The report appeared to contradict a simultaneous one from Channel 10, which stated that the attorney general has already made up his mind in favor of indicting the prime minister’s wife.