El primer ministro israelí Netanyahu se declara inocente en la reanudación del juicio por corrupción elmundo.es - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from elmundo.es Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The start of the trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020. (Amit Shabi/POOL)
The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday rejected a request by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attorneys to delay the next hearing in his corruption trial on the grounds that other indictments may be filed in related cases.
Netanyahu’s legal team had asked to court to wait until a final decision is made on filing indictments against telecommunications giant Bezeq, the Walla news website, and the Yedioth Ahronoth daily newspaper.
The attorneys were basing their appeal on a court’s right to merge separate trials if they are deemed tied to each other.
Judges Moshe Bar-Am, Rebecca Friedman-Feldman and Oded Shaham, L-R. (Justice Ministry)
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, who recently formed a new political party running in the upcoming elections, attacked Justice Minister Benny Gantz for caving to Netanyahu, after Gantz said several weeks ago that he wouldn’t allow the premier to manipulate the lockdown timing to nix his own trial hearing.
Huldai’s No.2 in the new “The Israelis” party is Avi Nissenkorn, the justice minister until recently who resigned and left Gantz’s Blue and White party.
“Not two weeks have passed since Nissenkorn left the Justice Ministry, and the Netanyahu trial is delayed. Gantz isn’t missing an opportunity to cave to Bibi. We will put the country back on track,” Huldai said, using Netanyahu’s nickname.
Lawyer Ariel Roth, seen in an Uvda TV documentary, December 24, 2020 (Channel 12 screenshot)
A senior partner in the law firm of one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lawyers was reportedly involved in a scheme to undermine the corruption trial against the premier.
According to an investigative report aired on Channel 12’s “Uvda” program, lawyer Ariel Roth tried to get family members of the judges overseeing the case to make remarks against Netanyahu in order to discredit the justices.
Roth co-founded the law firm of Amit Hadad, who represents Netanyahu in the trial, in which he is charged with fraud and breach of trust in three cases, and bribery in one of them. Netanyahu denies the charges.