Another discussion opens: Today (Monday) the testimony of the state witness will be resumed Shlomo Pilber As part of the main investigation in the 4000 case, in which the former prime minister is charged Benjamin Netanyahu In the offense of bribery.
10:20: Prosecutor Tirosh continued to read to Pilber an excerpt from his interrogation on 2/19/18.
Pilber: For all this act of structural separation. First of all I did not have the option not to meet the schedule. And it created for them a tremendous power over me in this matter. Which should not be between supervisor and supervisor. The second thing was, as time went on and progressed and there were all sorts of technical obstacles in the way that resulted from the conduct within the firm, I found myself in a much more critical strait for me. The intensity of the process with Bezeq also created this negative dynamic. “Let’s say from all the moves I made throughout the period, I think it was very unusual.”
10:15: After reading his interrogations, Pilber said: “Yes, there were certain moments when I was with my back to the wall. If the process was optimal – the answer is no.” Prosecutor Tirosh insists: You said you were controlled, you said you were dependent, that they had the keys in hand to determine if that would happen. You said you did not have the discretion of ‘if’, that you had the discretion of ‘how’. Explain. “
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Pilber: “I had all the discretion what details to put in. For me in my State of Mind I did not have the option not to do it. If I blow up the move – there is no structural separation and no optical fiber, and I also fought with Bezeq.”
10:11: Plaintiff Tirosh read in the courtroom before the witness, his interrogation on February 25, 18 after he was asked about his conduct regarding the cancellation of the structural separation that Bezeq would have liked.
From the investigation:
Pilber: “It’s basically meaning I went to the farthest end possible.” Researcher: “In what aspect did you go to the far end as far as possible?”. Pilber: “On Schedules.” Pilber: “The idea was basically professional, but the implementation was very unprofessional.” Researcher: “What was unprofessional in perfume?”. Pilber: “The whole process of making decisions and advancing the matter and issuing the letter of intent.” Pilber: I shortened processes in order to meet the schedule that Bezeq dictated to me that this is not acceptable. “
Researcher: What else is not acceptable? Pilber: There was an explicit directive from the Attorney General that the move be subject to a hearing and the Legal Bureau wanted the wording to be less binding. At the request of Stella on behalf of Shaul Alovich, I softened the corporate separation. I downloaded it instead of operational and marketing. “
09:50: Pilber: “The schedule dictated things to me. What you are enough you do and what you do not shorten. Bezeq finally holds a NIS 6 billion check and says ‘Do you want it? So the agreements until 2016’. It is true that within this process There were moments of three months when I was with my back to the wall. “
09:45: The hearing opened and with it Pilber said: “I tried to close gaps. If I had not been in the Ministry of Communications how long would it have taken the process to happen? 3 years. I did in a few weeks.” Judge Bar Am responded: “This was done ostensibly in violation of administrative rules.” Pilber: “Not against the rules. I dealt with it for about a year. I had nothing I did not know or did not know. The question was how to put it into practice.”
Prosecutor Tirosh said: “You described gently in relation to how you described in the interrogations the rounding of corners and the shortening of the procedures you did. In the interrogations you described it blatantly. You said you went to the far end as possible, without it being in an orderly process with the minister.” Pilber: “True. I constantly accelerated the workers and in some places I made the decisions. The procedure was very long. Tiroche:” In the investigations you described it as a flawed judgment, that it is not acceptable to meet the schedule that Bezeq dictates to you. “
Shlomo Pilber testifies in the 4000 case. Roni Kanfo, Walla!
So far, Pilber told the court about his attitude toward the Bezeq Group, which was controlled by businessman Shaul Elowitz while serving as director general of the Ministry of Communications under Netanyahu, and according to the indictment, provided Netanyahu-led benefits to Netanyahu, who received favorable coverage in the Walla! Which at the time was also owned by Elovich.
Pilber said that in one case, because of Netanyahu, he refrained from “giving a hammer to Bezeq,” even though I had to, “he said, in order for her to agree to carry out the reform of the wholesale market, which was against her interests.
In his testimony, Pilber tried to go between two streams: in one he claimed that everything he said in his police testimony against Netanyahu was true, which satisfies the prosecution, and on the other hand he claimed that the picture is more complex and that investigators sought to reach this indictment at all costs.
The prosecution will continue to investigate Pilber this week in a more complex and rigid manner, as it has been given the option by the court to do so because of discrepancies that have arisen between his testimony in court and that of the police. Pilber was then questioned by the defense team, which objected to the prosecution’s demand to declare Pilber a hostile witness because of the same inconsistencies.