Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Bezeq affair - Case 4000 - on his Facebook page this evening (Tuesday).
""After they claimed that the prime minister smoked cigars worth a million shekels - the new balloon arrived: benefits worth a billion shekels," it was written.
""But all actions were taken in a matter-of-fact manner based on recommendations from the professional echelon, professional committees and legal advice. Not a million, not a billion, not a trillion, and nothing.".
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The Prime Minister is referring to what the representative of the Attorney General's Office claimed today, during the hearing in the District Court on the appeal filed by the two main suspects in Case 4000 - Shaul Elovitch and Nir Hefetz - that this involved "harnessing a leading website for the purpose of favorable coverage in exchange for regulatory benefits from the Minister of Communications and the Director General of the Ministry of Communications, which for Eurocom is worth between 680 million shekels in cash and up to about a billion shekels, including contingent payments in the merger deal.".
Netanyahu attached a link to his post. For an investigation by the 'Mida' website', Titled: "The facts prove: The 'Walla' website did not provide sympathetic coverage to Netanyahu.".
At the beginning of the investigation, it was stated: "One of the suspicions being investigated in the Case 4000 affair is that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his family received favorable coverage on the 'Walla' website in exchange for benefits received by Bezeq's controlling shareholder, Shaul Elovitch, from the Ministry of Communications.
""This claim sounds a little strange to someone who has actually followed the editorial line of the Walla news system in recent years, and indeed a review of the ongoing news coverage, the commentary articles and opinion columns published during the last election period suggests that the coverage the site gave to Netanyahu is very far from being sympathetic.".
