Amit Hadad, the lawyer for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aide Jonatan Urich, says he will ask the court to lift the gag order on details of the Qatargate scandal in order to expose “the absurd allegations.”
Police have asked the court to extend the remand of Urich and fellow suspect Elie Feldstein.
Hadad, who also represents Netanyahu in his corruption trial, says: “I will ask the court to lift the gag order on the case in order to expose the absurdity of the unfounded suspicions against him, and the injustice done to him that cries out to the heavens.”
“This case has no evidence, just hot air manufactured for media purposes,” Hadad charges.
“We can’t let law enforcement hide and blur the truth with gag orders when we are talking about such serious accusations against the good name of a person and his basic rights,” Hadad says.
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