Bennett: Liberman, Netanyahu scandals politicized
12/28/2012 14:17
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Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett on Friday came to the defense of his political competitors, Likud-Beytenu leaders Binyamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Liberman, slamming recent legal moves against each as politically motivated, Army Radio reported.
Speaking at a Ramat Gan political discussion, Bennett slammed both the attorney-general's decision to indict Liberman and the state comptroller's decision topromulgate his draft report on Netanyahu's "Bibi-Tours" affair just weeks before the general election.
"Theoretically it helps us because it hurts our rivals, but this is not acceptable. How is it that they're investigating Liberman for 12 years and it pops up suddenly just before the elections?" he asked.
"And how is it that the 'Bibi-Tours' Affair is sitting with the state comptroller for such a long time and exactly three-and-a-half weeks before the elections they found the need to distribute it? It wasn't possible to wait until a week after the elections?" he continued.
Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein presented the Knesset with an updated and somewhat more serious indictment for fraud and breach of public trust on Thursday against Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman regarding the Belarus Ambassador Affair.
Weinstein will file the final indictment with the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Sunday.
Also on Thursday, Channel 2 reported that State Comptroller Yosef Shapira sent Prime Minister Netanyahu the draft to his report in the "Bibi-Tours" affair.
In March 2011, Channel 10 investigative reporter Raviv Drucker exposed a series of flights allegedly paid for by wealthy associates that Netanyahu took with his wife Sara in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The Comptroller's report draft was also sent to 30 other ministers and deputy ministers from three different governments over similar allegations of improper funding of international trips.
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