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Netanyahu's closest friend - to a state witness at his trial: Shlomo Pilber will testify today in the 4000 case

Pilber, who served as Netanyahu's Director General of the Ministry of Communications during the relevant period of the charges, will be the second witness in this trial on the witness stand. Netanyahu announced that he will not attend Pilber's main testimony, The dramatic testimony

Shlomi Heller and Yael Friedson

22/03/2022

Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 11:46 Updated: Wednesday, 23 March 2022, 07:47

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In the video: Discussion on the use of spyware against Shlomo Pilber in the 4000 case (Walla system!)

State Witness Shlomo (Momo) Pilber will appear tomorrow (Wednesday) at the witness stand in the Jerusalem District Court to testify against opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the 4000 case. The counterclaim by his defense attorney, Adv. Boaz Ben Tzur, which is expected to begin after Pesach.

Pilber led the Likud's campaign in the 20th Knesset elections in 2015 and played a significant part in Netanyahu's big victory thanks to the use of the Big Data system to map voters and send text messages by segmentation.

Netanyahu repaid Pilber and appointed him director general of the Ministry of Communications in June 2015, after ousting former director general Avi Berger in a phone call.

Berger opposed for a long time the approval of the Bezeq-Yes merger deal, and demanded that it be included in the implementation of the wholesale market reform.

According to the indictment, with Pilber's appointment, Netanyahu met with him and instructed him to assist the business of Shaul Elowitz, the controlling shareholder in Bezeq-Yas, who is accused of bribing Netanyahu, and specifically to get

Bezeq-Yas approved soon, as well as instructing him to moderate the decline. Prices as part of the wholesale market reform.

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His testimony plays a significant part in the same "delusional thesis" of the State Attorney's Office.

Pilber (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)

According to the indictment, with Pilber's appointment, Netanyahu met with him and instructed him to assist the business of Shaul Elowitz, the controlling shareholder in Bezeq-Yas, who is accused of bribing Netanyahu, and specifically to get

Bezeq-Yas approved soon, as well as instructing him to moderate the decline. Prices as part of the wholesale market reform.

Although Pilber was the first of the people in the case to sign a state witness agreement, he often criticized the State Attorney's Office and only last week did he tweet that "all the trolls the state is going through were born from the hallucinatory thesis," referring to publications by The Marker reporter Nati Tucker. "Permeated like a poisonous worm to the investigative and enforcement bodies."

Pilber's testimony plays a significant role in the same "delusional thesis" of the State Attorney's Office: Case 4000 was born from an investigation into the Bezeq securities case, during which Pilber was investigated in the summer of 2014. Securities Authority investigators could not understand why Pilber was helping Benefits from the relationship between the two.

Only after Walla!'S former CEO Ilan Yeshua spoke about the give-and-take relationship between Netanyahu and Elovich, in which Elovich instructed Walla! To review Netanyahu in a positive way in exchange for regulatory easing in the Ministry of Communications.

Netanyahu (Photo: Paul, Avshalom Shashoni)

So far, about 12 witnesses have testified at the trial, including Salvation and content people from the Walla!

Who testified to the coverage demands that came from above, and the Netanyahu family's communications consultant, to state witness Nir Hefetz, who passed on a large part of the Netanyahu family's demands to Yeshua Valowitz.

Berger and Communications Ministry spokeswoman Dana Neufeld also testified about the Ministry of Communications' professional positions regarding Bezeq and Eurocom groups, and the pressure exerted

by Pilber to promote them.

Pilber testified to the police that he acted under Netanyahu's guidance, but often claimed that he acted for professional motives. Investigated by the police, and important for proving the consideration in Netanyahu's part, in the bribery deal with Elovich.

Today (Tuesday) it was announced that Eurocom Holdings, formerly owned by Shaul Alovich, according to which the company will plead guilty to charges against her in the 4000 case and the Bezeq-Securities case and will pay a fine of NIS 400,000 within a year

. , Both bribery and money laundering in the 4000 case, due to "Elovich's criminal thought", as well as receiving anything fraudulently in aggravated circumstances, fraud and breach of trust and other offenses in the "Bezeq-Securities" case.

This, following the payment of the consideration for the acquisition of the shares of Yes by Bezeq and the conduct of the independent committees established by Bezeq for the purpose of examining transactions in which Elowitz had a personal interest.

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