Netanyahu suspected of trying to help the media owner sell his news site: report

Israeli Police Investigate Prime Minister's Attempt Benjamin Netanyahu to help the owner of Bezeq's telecommunications giant, Shaul Elovitch, to sell Walla! News site, according to a Channel 10 report released Tuesday.

The report says the police are investigating whether Netanyahu helped Elovitch sell Walla! to Oracle chief Larry Ellison, and that the prime minister has already been questioned about it.

Netanyahu is currently under investigation in several corruption cases, one of which concerns Elovich.

Case 4000, to differentiate it from at least three other investigations in which Netanyahu and his badociates are currently mingled, is based on suspicions that Elovitch obtained trade concessions and settlements in exchange for the positive coverage of Netanyahu on the website of Elovich Walla's information. 19659004] Police would suspect that Elovich received privileged information from the Ministry of Communication by two close badociates of Netanyahu – Shlomo "Momo" Filber and Nir Hefetz.

Netanyahu was Minister of Communications at the time.

According to him, Elovich put pressure on the editors and the journalists of the popular information website Walla, published by Bezeq, so that Netanyahu and his wife Sara are judged positive and minimize the negative stories about the government in exchange concessions benefiting Bezeq.

investigate, they received a mbadive boost by convincing Filber, the former Department of Communications ch ief, and Hefetz, the doctor of the cast, to become witnesses of state. Israeli media speculate that he could give damning evidence against Netanyahu, who was questioned alongside his wife regarding the investigation.

Despite numerous allegations of corruption against Netanyahu, the latest polls reveal that Netanyahu's Likud party still receives between 30 and 33 warrants.