Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the prime minister, is being grilled by anti-corruption police as part of an investigation into spending at the Prime Minister’s Residence.
During the interrogation, police are expected to make Netanyahu and Ezra Saidoff — a former deputy director for operations at the Prime Minister’s Office — face new witnesses, after new evidence came to late in the case, according to an earlier report.
Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem Labor Court on October 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
In May, Israel police recommended prosecuting the prime minister’s wife for aggravated fraud for allegedly appropriating public funds earmarked for the Prime Minister’s Residence for private use.
But during a review of the case, the State Prosecutor’s Office asked the police to continue investigating and as a result, new evidence has come to light, according to Channel 10.
Two of the cases involve her using state money to order food for personal use, and a third case involves using public funds to pay for a caretaker for her elderly father.
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