PM may petition High Court if AG refuses to delay indictment hearing
April 23, 2019
Netanyahu’s legal team also considering boycotting pre-indictment process altogether if Mandelblit won’t grant several month postponement
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in a composite photo.
Times of Israel reports, “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lawyers are mulling petitioning the High Court of Justice against Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit if he refuses to postpone a pre-indictment hearing for potential charges in three corruption cases the premier is implicated in, according to a Channel 12 news report Tuesday. One of Netanyahu’s lawyers reportedly told the TV network they were also considering forgoing the hearing altogether if Mandelblit won’t delay the hearing, which is scheduled for July.”
“Citing fears of leaks to the press of the evidence against Netanyahu in the middle of a hard-fought election campaign, the prime minister’s attorneys asked Mandelblit to freeze the hearing process and not release to them the evidence in the case, even at the cost of delaying their preparations for the pre-indictment hearings.” (more…)