In the video: The Ombudsman backed up the decision to open an investigation into the Fifth Dimension case (Editor: Amit Simcha)
The Prosecutor's Office announced today (Tuesday) that the "Fifth Dimension" case will be closed.
As part of the case, suspicions were investigated according to which a deal was made between the Israel Police and the "Fifth Dimension" software company that was not according to accepted procedures.
The case aroused great interest when it was published about two years ago, due to the fact that the former chairman of the board of directors of the company was Benny Gantz, even though he was not suspected as part of it. In 2020, the attorney general's office
recommended to the then attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, to open a criminal investigation centered on the "Hammed" company The investigation dealt with suspicions that officials in the company misrepresented themselves to the police.
In March 2019, State Comptroller Yosef Shapira published a report, a significant part of which was devoted to the police's contract with the company, which was closed a year earlier. The auditor found deficiencies in the way relations between the company and the police were conducted.
The affair aroused interest due to the fact that he was the chairman of the board of directors of the "Fifth Dimension". Gantz (photo: screenshot, no)
According to the auditor's report issued in 2016, the company offered the police to purchase a technological system in intelligence matters that it developed.
The auditor found that there was a problem in the discussion chaired by the former Commissioner Roni Elshich on the subject of the engagement with the "Fifth Dimension", this is due to the fact that the senior representatives of the company participated in the discussion, since it is an interested party. The report also revealed that the suitability of the system to the needs of the police was examined through two tests by "The fifth dimension", this without making any appeal to additional technology companies.
The auditor also claimed that the initial engagement with the company was carried out under the definition of "operational need", for reasons of protection of methods of operations and work methods, and thus the police behaved unequally between it and other companies in the field of technology that might meet the defined criteria.
Also, in the processes leading up to the procurement of the technological system, the auditor claims that the police chose not to consult with the Exemption Committee at the Treasury, the Accountant General, the Procurement Manager at the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Internal Security and did not involve these parties in the process of preparing for the procurement - until late stages of this process.
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