The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is suspected of influencing witnesses and obstructing justice.
Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has ordered police to open an investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife on suspicion of obstructing justice and influencing witnesses in her husband’s trial on charges of corruption, fraud and breach of trust. This was reported by the AP and DPA agencies on Thursday.
The Israeli Ministry of Justice reported this in a brief report, saying that the investigation will focus on the recent findings of the investigative program Uvda on Channel 12. Its creators obtained messages from the WhatsApp application that Netanyahu exchanged with her husband’s assistant Hanni Bleiweiss, who died last year.
She is accused of intimidating prosecutors
Among other things, Sara Netanyahu reportedly ordered protesters to be sent to the house of a key witness in her husband’s trial and in this way tried to intimidate the prosecutors as well.
On Thursday, Netanyahu released a four-minute video praising his wife’s actions and calling the investigative reporting “lies.”
The corruption trial against Netanyahu has been going on for more than four years. Among other things, he is accused of providing favors to the telecommunications giant Bezeq and receiving lavish gifts from billionaire friends as communications minister.
Netanyahu denies the allegations and says he is the victim of a “witch hunt” by overzealous prosecutors, police and the media. Members of his government have been campaigning for the removal of the attorney general for months, with coalition party leaders agreeing to such a move.
