For the first time since Miki Ganor withdrew from the state witness agreement in the submarine case and was accused of bribery, Ganor testified today (Sunday) in another case that is a derivative of the submarine case.
In the derivative case, Tzachi Lieber is accused of transferring alleged bribe money from Genor to David Sharan.
In his testimony in the District Court in Tel Aviv before Judge Benny Sagi, Ganor denied all of his statements to the police and claimed that he gave information to bring the investigators closer to the Prime Minister, thereby confirming the publication of the matter in Israel Hayom.
"It's been six years, and maybe a little longer, I've been waiting to tell the truth," Ganor began his testimony, "Six years of slander, media, disinformation, and whatever you want. For six years, I was forced to be a state witness, they intimidated me in the Shabi series, they intimidated me with illusory tax offenses , against the family, they put everyone under investigation. The members of the family, my two older children are doctors, one is a lawyer and was interrogated with a warning, the partner was also interrogated with a warning and all to discover the truth. I broke down. I didn't stand up, I broke down, I broke down. Let there be no doubt for anyone here. I did not stand by that, Honorable Judge. I told lies whatever they wanted.
"I entered this tunnel, the target from the first or second or third day, I don't remember, it was Bibi. Bibi or the friend, or Roham, or that one from Jerusalem.
And if it wasn't for Bibi or Roham or Yuval Steinitz or David Shimron, Molcho, David Sharan, etc., etc. And if I deviated from the "narrative", the senior officers made sure to put me in the right place, and they succeeded. The agreement. And since then the State of Israel has embarked on a campaign of revenge."
Prosecutor Yaron Golmov from the Taxation and Economics Attorney's Office screened a video from Ganor's investigation "From the things you say in the video it appears that the funds were transferred to Liber in order for them to reach Sharan".
Ganor responded, "This is not true. I employed the accused as a media consultant, just as I employed media consultants before him and after him, such as Ronan Zur, Eyal Arad, and more. I have employed media consultants in all of the last 25 years, who are better and who are less good."
Glomov read another section of the investigation according to which he transferred NIS 94,000 to Liber where Ganor explains "brokerage services for David Sharan and nothing else".
In today's testimony, Ganor objected to saying to the police, "This is unequivocally not true."
At this point, the prosecutor began cross-examining Ganor.
Regarding Raviv Drucker's investigation that was published in 2016 and revealed the submarine affair, Ganor said "I was very surprised. It didn't occur to me that this was the direction anyone was going."
He later said that "I was also surprised by the investigation. They marked targets, I was shocked."
Ganor said that during the investigation he realized that the investigators were offering him to be a state witness and according to him "it was after crazy tax threats, family, asthma, whatever you want, and I broke down."
Prosecutor Glomov claimed that until Ganor brought up Sharan's name as a mediator in the deal as part of the contacts to sign the state's testimony, the investigation did not deal with him.
"You are the one who brought him" he said.
Ganor objected: "Not true. The goal was clear. We want the people who surround Roham."
Who spins Roham? Its leader, David Shimron, David Sharan, I don't remember who else. I think, and I don't know where it appears here. I was probably asked here what about Roham somewhere?
I said that I don't know how to get there.
These things are based on things that were not.
I went in and started telling a story, I made an effort to tell the story in order to please, in the situation I was in, to please, to please the investigators in order, in my opinion, to save the family, no matter what situation I was in.
As a father wants to save the family.
So you have to choose whether your life or the life of your children.
I chose the life of my children.
And if that's why Moti Levy wants to hear how a prime minister is brought down, I'll give you the material.
A lie and another lie and another lie."
Golomov pressed: "The name David Sharan in the context of criminal offenses, at no point so far in the few investigations you had before this. You brought his name. I ask why?".
Ganor replied: "If you are Yoav Telam, for that matter, what you want from me is to get as close as possible to the Prime Minister, you are not interested in anything else. Therefore, every other person who worked with me, I knew, and David Sharan's connection is generally through Yuval Steinitz. I lied all along, and I lied about people I met and knew and I didn't lie about, for example, the Prime Minister, that I simply didn't meet. Therefore, it was not possible to sell these goods. Therefore, the lies and fabrications revolved around the people with whom I was in contact, whom I could quote or Without quotation marks to sacrifice in this situation. After I was told that Sharan was not enough, I also brought in Molcho and others. I included the lies day after day. That grew and grew in order to satisfy this monster and feed it endlessly."
"Why did I go back on the agreement with the state? I wanted to commit suicide. I didn't stand for lies, I couldn't look Tzachi in the eyes and apologize. I was a zero. That's all. Do you really think Tzachi influenced the submarine deal? A bit out of proportion. He's not at a decision point or even close to a decision point ".
Later he said "I felt like I was going crazy inside".
Ganor later asked Liber to drop the indictment. "Send him home and let me ask him for forgiveness and forgiveness."
The prosecutor wondered, after all, in order to bring the prime minister's close associates to the investigators, it was enough to say that he transferred money to David Sharan, there is no need to involve Lieber.
Judge Benny Sagi Hossef will also be this one.
Ganor replied: "I got everyone involved."
The prosecutor presented tables that Ganor had prepared before the start of the investigation and which he referred the investigators to during his investigation.
In the tables of payments of money to various suppliers such as various public relations personnel, where David Sharan's name appears in several places.
Ganor replied "It's a planning table, a fact that Sharan didn't accept. It's a mistake that unfolded."
The prosecutor asked, "How in the world did Sharan enter the table for the first time (since then his name came up)?".
Ganor replied "I don't know".
The prosecutor and judge Sagi asked for clarification and Ganor replied: "Sharan did not receive money from me, the table was prepared by my assistant under my instructions, did I check every line? I don't think so. There are mistakes in other places as well. If there is a mistake I am responsible for it, was there any comma here Of intention? Absolutely not and the fact that it was not paid."
The plaintiff asked, "When the amount (payment to Sharan in the table) increased from 4000 to 6250 euros, is that also a mistake?"
And Ganor replied "I don't know, there are hundreds of such tables. It's a mistake and that's all."
During the testimony, Ganor explained that it was a legitimate payment table with which he built his false testimony.
The prosecutor presented an email that Ganor received from his assistant, where it says "Attorney Devar Hirsh (David Sharan)" and a receipt. Ganor responded, "I don't know.
The parentheses in which David Sharan is written are strange and do not make sense." The prosecutor showed that starting from the date of receiving the email, instead of David Sharan, "Attorney Dov Hirsch" appears in the table.
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