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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorneys asked the Attorney General on Tuesday to reconsider the credibility of the investigations against them during the tenure of Deputy Police Commissioner Roni Ritman as commander of the Lahav 433 unit, arguing that They were perhaps motivated vendetta against the family.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan refused to appoint Ritman to any position in the police after it was decided that he would finish his role as chief of the police. Lahav unit, effectively ending his career as a police officer, unlike Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh.
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Sara Netanyahu (Photo: Shaul Golan)
The letter, sent by lawyers Yaakov Weinroth and Yossi Cohen , declares that "today, it is clear that Commissioner Roni Ritman, who led the investigations into the Israeli Prime Minister and his wife, was prejudiced because he thought the Netanyahu family had started the complaint badual harbadment
filed by a subordinate against him. "
Ritman oversaw the investigation of the Residence case, which led to the prosecution of Sara Netanyahu,
as well as the investigations in cases 1000, 2000,
and 4000
alleging corruption charges against the Prime Minister.
"This fact casts a heavy shadow over the investigations that have been conducted against the Netanyahu family, and any issue examined by the unit under his leadership regarding the Netanyahu couple is debatable," the two men added. At the end of the letter, the lawyers asked Mandelblit to "reconsider the above investigations".
Erdan, Ritman, Alsheikh (Photo: Alex Kolomoisky, Moti Kimchi, Orel Cohen)
[19659002] Earlier in the day, Haaretz reported that Ritman, during the investigation of his allegations of badual abuse, asked if there was a link between the complaint against him and the investigation against Sara Netanyahu in the case Residence. Ritman's lawyer alleged that the complaint against him was in response to his job as a Netanyahu family investigator.
In May, Ritman announced that he was retiring from the police. In the weeks leading up to his announcement, he was waiting for a new promotion to join senior police officers, which he was denied after Minister Erdan refused to grant him other appointments to the police.
In January, Police Commissioner Alsheikh reprimanded Ritman for badual harbadment charges brought against him by a junior officer. The reprimand was made following the request of the High Court of Justice
that the police close the criminal investigation against Ritman.
Sara Netanyahu (Photo: MCT)
According to the decision of January, Ritman could stay
in uniform, but could not advance or receive a significant role, such as a district commander or a head of the traffic department.
A complaint filed against Ritman by a junior officer alleges that he harbaded her badually a few years ago at the end of a police party, after which he followed her. until her car in the parking lot and kissed her by force.
After the opening of the criminal investigation against him by the Attorney General, the applicant appealed to the High Court of Justice and the judges asked the police commissioner for clarification on the disciplinary measures that would be nevertheless taken against Ritman.
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