Netanyahu suspected of trying to help the media mogul sell the news site – report

While police investigate suspicions of wrongdoing in relations between Benjamin Netanyahu and Shaul Elovich, the owner of telecommunications giant Bezeq, they seek to find out if the prime minister has attempted to help Elovich to sell the Walla information website.

The new details relate to the so-called Bezeq case, also known as the 4000 case, which implies suspicion that Netanyahu made regulatory decisions in favor of Elovich, and in return received favorable coverage of Walla.
According to a Channel 10 report on Tuesday, investigators are checking whether Netanyahu was involved in a potential contract for Elovich to sell Walla, who was ill at the time, to American billionaire Larry Ellison.

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Netanyahu was questioned about the suspicions in his last round of interrogation in the case earlier this month, the report said.

Elovich was questioned by the police the same day and reportedly admitted that he personally intervened to change the content on the Walla Information Site at the request of the Netanyahu family, while denying that He was expecting favors in return.

Ellison's name also appeared in another Netanyahu Inquiry, Case 2000, concerning the alleged sale of the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth to the tycoon.

Elovich called the television report "nonsense", declaring in a statement to Channel 10 that it was "regrettable to see how a survey in a democratic country has become a village inquiry that recalls the countries of the third world, without justice and without judge ".

The representatives of Netanyahu, who was also Minister of Communications at the time, responded that the participation of the Prime Minister for Media Affairs was part of "For 20 years, the prime minister has been trying to get investors to diversify the media map in Israel and to break the monopoly of left-wing opinions," the statement said. "It's exactly the mandate that has been given to him by the elector on many occasions."

Aside from the 4000 file, Netanyahu is currently facing two other corruption investigations.

In the 1000 case, Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu are suspected The 2000 case involves an alleged illegal counterfeit deal between Netanyahu and the newspaper's publisher Yedioth Ahronoth, Arnon Mozes, who allegedly saw the Prime Minister weaken a rival newspaper, Israel Hayom, backed by Sheldon Adelson, in exchange for a more favorable coverage of Yedioth.

Police have recommended that Netanyahu be accused of receiving bribes in both cases. The Prime Minister denies wrongdoing in all investigations against him.