Knitted News29.03.22 11:21 26 Adar B. Tishpev
Pilber (Photo: Oren Ben Hakon / Flash 90)
Drama in the Netanyahu trial: The State Attorney’s Office wants to investigate the state witness, Shlomo (Momo) Pilber, as a ‘hostile witness’.
This means that Judge Judith Tirosh will be able to cross-examine Pilber. In response, Pilber claimed that “I have no interest in cross-examination.” Netanyahu’s defense attorneys oppose the move.
The background arose already in the first testimony
As you may recall, the background to Tirosh’s request began on the first day of Pilber’s testimony, where she considered the possibility, after seeking to refresh his memory after the testimony given to the police and the discrepancy between his police interrogation and his testimony in court regarding Netanyahu’s conflict of interest settlement (Dina Zilber document).
The plaintiff in the Netanyahu trial, Liat Ben-Ari, and the person in charge of the 4000 case, Yehudit Tirosh (Yonatan Zindel / Flash 90)
According to Tirosh, there is a gap in his version of Netanyahu’s conflict of interest in Bezeq’s case between his interrogation by the police and his testimony at trial. In the lawsuit, they stated that this was a “cumulative matter.”
“I was on the regulatory side”
Pilber: “I did not think about the connection between Walla and the Prime Minister. It raised an issue that I knew was unrelated to me. I was on the regulatory side. “He further adds that he believes that the material was transferred to him in order for them to be transferred to Alovich, since he is the regulator.
Pilber even attacked and came out against Hefetz: “Nir Hefetz was the representative of the Netanyahu family, with an emphasis on Yair and Sarah. I knew that the prime minister usually does not send me messages through him. He had potential damage, he always had accounts. Phones from the prime minister through his wife or son. “
Nir Hefetz (Photo: Olbia Fitoussi / Flash 90)
Tiroche: “In this interaction with Zilber and the parties, did you tell the person conducting the investigation about the connection with Bezeq?” Pilber Responds: “Egg and chicken. I was in contact with a supervised body.” Judge Shaham: “The question was factual.”
Pilber: “I did not tell the conflicting parties how I work, neither with the bodies nor with Bezeq.”
Tiroche: Why?
Pilber: Not for some reason, it’s not their business. You call it a channel, when talking about February 2016, I did not know. For me, I’m talking to a company CEO. I’m having a fight with a VP of economics who’s trying to sabotage.
at this point, Tirosh quotes Pilber From the investigation: “Improper conduct, improper conduct that would certainly have radiated on the opinion.” And explained: “That’s why I asked.”
In his first interrogation, Pilber said at the time: “My answers in interrogations were true, but the intensity and volume were a product of context. I was a hundred hours interrogated in different situations and situations. “In a certain reality you see one world and then it is revealed in another way.”
(Photo: Jonathan Zindel / Flash 90)
Tirosh: “To the best of your understanding, what was Netanyahu’s expectation of you?” Pilber: “Let the problems be solved” Tirosh tried to understand: “Whose problems?” Pilber: “Of Elovich.”
Before that, Pilber said in his remarks: “In none of my interrogations have I said a single word of a lie.”
File 4000
File 4000 Also known as The Bezeq-Elowitz case, It is a criminal investigation conducted by the Blade 433 unit of the Israel Police, in cooperation with the Securities Authority, since June 2017. The affair, which includes several sub-cases, began with an investigation into the conduct of executives at Bezeq, Yes, Walla! NEWS and Communication Space “and of civil servants who acted in their capacity with Bezeq. Subsequently, the investigation expanded to suspicions of improper connections between Shaul Alovich, who then served as director general of the Ministry of Communications, and the then Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
(Photo: Kobi Gideon Flash 90)
At the center of the affair is the suspicion that the then director general of the Ministry of Communications, Shlomo Pilber, leaked internal documents of the ministry to Bezeq officials, including CEO Handler and consultant Eli Kamir, and Shakmir and Handler provided Pilber with comments on these documents and guidelines on Bezeq and Elowitz’s business.
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