""Bribery is a crime that the prosecution invented": New attorney for Netanyahu cases

July 10, 2020   

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office officially announced today (Friday) that attorney Yossi Segev has joined the prime minister's team of attorneys. Negotiations are currently underway with attorney Boaz Ben-Zur. How can you become a programmer, paramedic, or multimedia producer without investing a single penny? The prime minister's office said that negotiations are continuing on funding Netanyahu's legal defense. If attorney Ben Tsur joins, he will not be able to represent Netanyahu in Case 1,000 because he will represent Arnon Milchan, who was a suspect in the case and will now be a witness in the prosecution. In an interview with Reshet B, attorney Segev clarified that he will receive a salary based on the progress of the case and will make "every effort" to sort out the funding issue with the Permits Committee. In the interview, Segev said that the prosecution invented the offense of bribery. "This is a big challenge. Indeed, I am joining the defense and we will be joined by another attorney, probably Boaz Ben Tsur, and together we will have three attorneys." When asked why he took on the case if he usually only represents civil and not criminal cases, he replied: "This case is entirely civil, it is not criminal. It's not that someone robbed a bank at gunpoint. It's a case of taking cigars from a friend and sympathetic articles." He added: "I would remove the word fraud because I didn't see the word fraud. There is a bribery case, where bribery is an offense that the prosecutor's office invented. I haven't seen such an offense in the entire Western world since democracy began in the Arab world. It's completely bizarre. "Of course it's not criminal. It doesn't reach a disciplinary level either." To the question of whether the prosecutor's office is pursuing the prime minister, he replied: "If it's not pursuing him - it's a very interesting coincidence, that everything he does didn't start with a complaint. I simply don't understand where the legal advisor, who is in a huge conflict of interest, has the right to express an opinion at all. What kind of thing is this? He expresses an opinion about how much money? It's beyond your comprehension." In response to the question of whether there is a special arrangement regarding the financing of representation: "This matter of financing is also very infuriating. The same legal advisor who files an indictment really wants to convict. In other words, his desire is not to reveal the truth but to convict. He also determines whether the amount they want to give for financing is a lot or a little. I will make every effort to sort out the funding issue, no matter how it is not sorted out. There is a salary that I deserve and I will receive it." Segev also attacked Mandelblit and said: "I want to study the issue of the permits committee because I simply do not understand where the legal advisor, who is in a huge conflict of interest, has the right to express an opinion at all. What kind of thing is this? He expresses an opinion about how much money? It's beyond your comprehension.".