In the shadow of the reports of a plea deal between Benjamin Netanyahu and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, the evidence phase in case 4,000 in the Jerusalem District Court continues today (Monday). "He did not remember the times" and was therefore summoned for further interrogations. In response, Adv. Boaz Ben-Zur, representing former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed:
For the first time since the reports of a plea deal: Netanyahu's trial resumed // Photo: Yoni Rickner
As stated, with the opening of the hearing, the cross-examination of Nir Schwartz resumed, claiming that "Hefetz did not remember times. As the investigation developed, the deadlines went backwards." He goes on to describe a specific moment about which he was interrogated, in which a document was transferred by Hefetz to Netanyahu: "He only knew how to say that it happened before the 2015 elections," Adv. Ben-Zur: "Before Momo Pilber entered the Ministry of Communications."
Adv. Ben-Zur tries to understand the course of the investigation and its results: "You investigated Hefetz in March, what happened between March and July? I will suggest - you read the materials, you saw the data and its version did not work out. "In response, Schwartz answers:" We read, we did investigations, more tests ", Adv. Ben Tzur makes it difficult:" Which one? ", Schwartz: The Prime Minister's Office, to verify arrivals in Balfour, more in-depth communication studies. " Adv. Ben-Zur reiterates: "What I said - you saw the version of Hefetz, it did not sit down", in response Schwartz says: "The version was not fixed for a certain date." Adv. Ben-Zur continues to make it difficult: Does not fit with your data, yes or no? ", Schwartz:" True ". At this point Schwartz notes that there were locomotives and that an object was asked to come to the interrogation with his laptop, in order to refresh his memory. Schwartz goes on to argue again: "It was difficult to pinpoint the exact dates,That's why we were summoned for questioning. "
The testimony phase in the 4000 case continues today, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Last week, as part of the investigation, Schwartz was asked by Adv. Boaz Ben-Zur about the terms of Hefetz's interrogation, and he reported that no unusual pressures were exerted in Hefetz's interrogation, but said that he saw Yaniv Peleg's attempt to change legal representation to reach an agreement with a witness. The state - problematic.
Earlier, the lawyer Assaf Engage from the Tax and Economics Attorney's Office asked: "To what extent was the object possible to consult an attorney?" In response, Schwartz replied: "Whenever he wanted, no one clicked on the object to change a lawyer.
"The compound of attorney-client relations is sacred to me, I said I will not enter this compound, not my place, I have nothing to look for there."
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He said of the pressures that "Hefetz was silent during the interrogation and did not say a word and did not give any reference or version regarding what was thrown at him during the interrogation. In a situation where a person is silent, they try to get him to say a version. Of course not a specific version.
Schwartz added that "there was no special or unusual pressure in the investigation, neither before nor after. Life during the detention is an unpleasant life. It's not exactly Hilton. "I want to say that nothing unusual was done for Nir Hefetz, nothing was done with other interrogees. He received food, he received as much medical treatment as we can give."
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