The State Attorney's Office is considering prosecuting Adv. Guy Zehavi for obstruction of justice in the murder cases of state witness Tal Korkus, Deborah Korkus and Elisha Sabah
Adv. Guy Zehavi
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Gideon Markovich
The State Attorney's Office announced today (Thursday) that the Deputy State Attorney (Special Positions), Nurit Littman, is considering prosecuting Adv. Guy Zehavi, for offenses of dismissal in an investigation and obstruction of justice, subject to a hearing. Tal Korkus, Deborah Korkus and Elisha Sabah.
The announcement was received in shock at the lawyer's office, but Zehavi himself was not at all surprised by the announcement.
For, according to a source close to him, until about three years ago, the police suspected that Zahavi was a terrorist in an investigation conducted by the Negev Sq. And even arrested him in one of the murder cases that took place in the south, related to the criminal organization of Nivi Zaguri
In December 2017, the Southern District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment against five defendants for their involvement in two murders.
Significant indictments were filed against Yaniv Zaguri and Arik Itel.
The investigation revealed a deep, cross-continental criminal connection, with much of the conduct and instructions to commit the two murders being calls and video on the WhatsApp app.
The indictment charged the defendants, Nivi Zaguri, Arik Itel, Michael Moore, Alyosha Ben-Shalom and Shimon Sharvit, with serious offenses.
The five are charged, each according to his share, with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, conspiracy to commit a crime, weapons offenses, obstruction of justice and other offenses.
Zaguri was tried in 2007, and most of the evidence in this case was based on the testimony of state witness Tal Korkus, who was also a modern-day man.
Zaguri was sentenced to seven years in prison.
In 2011, Adam Itel, the brother of another defendant, Arik Itel, was convicted in the Be'er Sheva District Court in two separate proceedings for two double murders he committed and related offenses and sentenced to four life sentences.
Elisha Sabah was a prosecution witness in one of the cases against Adam Itel, and it was he who led to the decipherment of one of the double murder cases attributed to him.
He will inform the police about a man who witnessed the double murder incident, which eventually led to the conviction of Adam Itel.
Zaguri and the Itel brothers had a long acquaintance.
Adam Itel was a senior activist in Zaguri's criminal organization, which at the time was also in contact with Michael Moore, head of a criminal organization in the north.
According to the indictment, after Zagori's release from prison, he decided to murder Sabah and Korkus, as well as Liraz Tshuva, Elisha's daughter and Roi Tshuva's widow, who was in contact with them and was murdered.
Zaguri saw them as responsible for prosecuting him and prosecuting Adam Itel.
Until a few years ago, Adv. Guy Zehavi was a lawyer in the criminal department of the Southern District Attorney's Office. After his retirement, he opened an office in Ramat Gan. The indictment states that Adv. Zehavi's visit to the state witness in the case is consistent with Zaguri.
This, in order to convey a hint that the witness should refrain from giving a statement during the interrogation, or cause him to give a false statement, according to which Zaguri is not involved in the events in the indictment.
Following this, Adv. Zehavi was arrested, interrogated and gave his version of the suspicions against him. When the police asked for an extension of his detention, the court ordered his release. The police appealed to the district court, and he too was denied. In which he answered the investigators' questions from the Negev Police Station. Adv. Zehavi was arrested at the time as a suspect in disrupting investigative proceedings.
Tonight, following the State Attorney's Office's announcement, Adv. Guy Zehavi responded: "Everything is a flower."