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The Bezeq company and the Walla company were suspected of crimes within the 4000 case. This, due to the actions and criminal thinking of Shaul Elovitch, who was the controlling owner of the Bezeq group and an officer in the companies, and was prosecuted for the offense of bribing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a reporting offense and an offense of obstruction of justice.
Bezeq was also suspected due to the actions of Stella Handler, who was the CEO of the company.
Yedioth Ahronoth Ltd. was suspected in the 2000 case due to the actions and criminal thinking of Arnon Mozes, who was an office holder in the corporation, and was prosecuted for offering a bribe to Prime Minister Netanyahu, in the form of changing the coverage in the newspaper and on the website Ynet, in exchange for legislative measures that would impose restrictions on the competitor Israel Hayom.
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The arrangement with Bezeq:
After the hearing held for Bezeq before the Deputy State Attorney (Financial Enforcement), it was decided to reach a settlement with it, in which the company will admit the facts concerning the company's report to the public that included a misleading detail, and will pay an amount of NIS 800,000.
As long as Bezeq complies with the terms of the settlement, no indictment will be filed against it.
In the settlement, Bezeq admitted that Shaul Elovitch and other representatives of the company worked with the CEO of the Ministry of Communications, Shlomo Filber, to promote the issue of canceling the structural separation in the Bezeq Group. In this context, Bezeq representatives - in the knowledge of Elovich and the handler - coordinated with Filber the text of a letter issued by Filber at the end of 2016, entitled "Cancellation of the obligation of structural separation in the Bezeq Group". Bezeq admitted that Filber's letter contained a misleading detail, because it omitted the obligation to hold a hearing before canceling the corporate separation in Bezeq, and presented a misleading representation that both the cancellation of the corporate separation and the cancellation of the structural separation are in an advanced stage. Bezeq published an immediate report to the public about the transmission of the letter and its contents. Elovich and Handler knew that the letter from the Ministry of Communications contained the misleading detail and that it would be reported to the public. Later, Bezeq published a clarifying report that referred to the misleading detail.
In the settlement, signed with the Taxation and Economic Attorney's Office, it was clarified that according to the attorney's office's position, the acts The described were carried out as part of a mutual relationship of give and take, forged between Elovitch and the Prime Minister and Minister of Communications Netanyahu. According to the prosecutor's position - as was also presented in the indictment in Case 4000 - within the framework of this relationship, Elovitch acted in order to comply with the demands concerning the manner of coverage of Netanyahu on the Walla website, with the aim of promoting his economic interests and those of the Bezeq Group, while Netanyahu instructed Filber to do well with Elovich's business.
Among the considerations that led to the settlement was taken into account the fact that Alovich and Hendler, the officers who were involved in the acts, no longer serve in the company, and that the control of the company changed hands.
Evidence presented by Bezeq was also taken into account that the company is working to implement an internal enforcement plan and has updated the compliance and internal enforcement procedures in aspects relevant to the incidents.
Also taken into account were the many resources that were involved in exhausting the criminal proceedings against Bezeq at this time, the complexity of conducting a proceeding parallel to the proceeding before the District Court in Jerusalem in case 4000, and the time that passed until the decision was made regarding the corporation, taking into account the aforementioned considerations.
It will be mentioned that with Handler, the CEO of Bezeq during the relevant period, in December 2020, the prosecutor's office already entered into an arrangement for a conditional termination of proceedings for that incident. In accordance with the arrangement, Handler admitted the facts according to which she was involved in including a misleading detail in Bezeq reports, paid a fine of NIS 400,000 and was barred from acting as a party Position in the reporting corporation for a period of nine months.
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Shaul Elovitch at the end of the hearing in his case in the Bezeq case July 20, 2022/photo processing, Avshalom Sashoni/Flash 90
Closing the Walla and Yediot Ahronoth cases:
In addition to this, as mentioned, the attorney's office informed the Walla and Yediot Ahronoth companies that the investigation files in their case had been closed, after examining the claims in the hearing and weighing the totality of the circumstances, including those relating to the public interest - the complexity resulting from the parallel management of the main case, and the delay until a decision is made on the issue.
It will be mentioned that alongside these corporations, companies from the Eurocom group were summoned to the hearing.
Eurocom Holdings, which is in liquidation, has long since (March 2022) signed a plea agreement with the Taxation and Economic Prosecutor's Office as part of the Bezeq case, which is ongoing at the District Court in Tel Aviv, according to which it will plead guilty to the charges, including the charge relating to Case 4000, and pay a fine of NIS 400,000. The settlement has not yet been approved by the court.
The main case against the corporate officers in cases 4000 and 2000, Shaul Elovich and Arnon Mozes, is currently being conducted in the District Court in Jerusalem.
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