In his testimony at the corruption trial of Benjamin Netanyahu, Shlomo Filber criticizes the police and the judiciary for how they handled the case.
“I tried to explain the complexity [of the situation] to the police investigators, but they did not want to hear,” Filber says in court in his first day of testimony. “They did not want to get the full picture from me – just ‘yes or no.'”
Filber says that “I wanted to do good for the State of Israel, I ruined six years of my life on this investigation.” He calls the police detectives who investigated him “two Rottweilers.”
“They brought this case to me, they’re ruining people’s lives.”
Filber, the former director general of the Communications Ministry and once a close Netanyahu confidant, is testifying in Case 4000, which alleges that Netanyahu used his office to improperly aid Bezeq controlling shareholder Shaul Elovitch in regulatory matters in exchange for favorable coverage in Elovitch’s Walla news site.
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