After rejecting the request to discuss receiving funding for his legal expenses, the commission announced that Netanyahu should present evidence that $ 300,000 had been restored to Milikowski

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After the State Comptroller's Office's permit committee rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request last week to discuss his request to discuss receiving funding for his legal expenses by his associate Spencer Partridge.

In addition, out of the amount that the Prime Minister previously received from his cousin Nathan Milikowski (about $ 300,000), $ 30,000 will be refunded within the month used for his legal protection. so.

A statement from the permit committee stated that "in light of the court's position on the government regarding the legality of the prime minister's request to finance his legal protection, the application will not be heard." The committee also stated that " Recoverable. "

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Recall Attorney General Avihai Mandelblit announced Thursday that he is opposed to financing Netanyahu's legal expenses by borrowing from his close associate, Spencer Partridge, $ 10 million. He expressed his opposition to the permit committee at the State Comptroller's Office, which is currently discussing the possibility of allowing Netanyahu to receive the loan.

The advisor wrote in his position that "in the circumstances, taking note of the exceptional amount in question ... it cannot be stated that the receipt of this amount by Mr. Petridge is not a gift given to him as a public servant." The advisor explains at the beginning of his letter that the law prohibits the public employee from receiving a gift "as he is a public servant" and explains that in his opinion, the prime minister, according to him, is given to him because of his power as a senior politician and not because of his membership with no capital and is therefore prohibited by law.

The consultant even cited the decision of the previous permit committee that opposed the funding, even though its members had already resigned and in fact the committee is now reviewing the application. The February 2019 decision states that Netanyahu's relationship with the tycoon remained 19 years ago, at a time when Netanyahu was at the end of his first term as prime minister "or as he retired from politics and is in a waiting position to return to power.

Even though later on, bad and personal friendship developed, the relationship between the two formed as a link between a fortune-teller and a senior politician, all of which is implied. These are not the old-time, school-age, youth, or military-service companies, but two-seven-member companies were the governing body and capital. "

Partridge is also included in the list of prosecution witnesses in the indictment against Netanyahu. Mandelblit explains to the Permit Committee that the concern for conflict of interest is initially due to the nature of their relationship and that the arrangement to prevent a conflict of interest already requested in the previous application to the Permit Committee is also required regardless of whether the Prime Minister receives a sum of money to finance his defense expenses, which is not a change Due to the fact that Partridge is up to a lawsuit.