Sara Netanyahu. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
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A senior police official told the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Thursday that Sara Netanyahu is suspected of bribery in Case 4000, according to media reports.
Case 4000, also known as the Bezeq-Walla! Affair, involves allegations that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered preferential treatment for Bezeq in exchange for positive media coverage by the Walla media outlet – with both companies owned by oligarch Shaul Elovitch.
In June, The Jerusalem Post exclusively reported that Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit will likely indict the prime minister for bribery in Case 4000.
In addition, many reports have alluded to Sara Netanyahu assisting in pushing Walla to cover the prime minister more positively, even potentially and implicitly threatening Walla at certain points for negative coverage.
But Thursday’s statement was the first official statement that the prime minister’s wife is a suspect along with him in the media bribery affair.
The statement came as a side comment in a hearing mostly about the status of property which the police seized from the Elovitch family as part of the investigation.
During cross-examination, Elovitch’s lawyer sought to compare the police’s treatment and suspicions regarding Sara Netanyahu to the treatment of the Elovitch’s. The police statement that Sara Netanyahu is a bribery suspect came out during these questions.
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Sara Netanyahu has already been separately indicted for hundreds of thousands of shekels of fraud in the Prepared Food Affair. Her trial in that case is due to open in October.
The Netanyahu family spokesperson denied the newfound allegations, saying: “What’s new about this absurd ‘suspicion? So the police say. These allegations never happened.”
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