Mandelblit on Deri: "A corruption case so serious that not even a mouse was born""

December 8, 2021   

This evening (Wednesday), Guy Peleg revealed on News 12 recordings of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, in which he refers to the investigation file against Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri. In the recordings, Mandelblit is heard describing the huge gap between the suspicions that were at the beginning of the investigation against Deri - serious suspicions of bribery - and the final result that emerged from the investigation. The vaccine for children aged 5-11 is recommended by doctors: a special response for parents Mandelblit on the bribery allegations against Deri: "I think the result is not good, it's even bad, that it took so long. The Deri case came to me as a very serious corruption case, an investigation of issues and things as if it seemed wow, big, yeah? Not even a mouse was born from this case, I mean nothing, it's not that the police, I don't know, it's like simply nothing, there was no investigation into tax evasion. "It took a very long period of time, that went nowhere. Simply nothing, now that they are investigating a big story that doesn't exist, they come up with other stories. Can they be ignored? "Absolutely no, it's impossible, you reach other things, completely different worlds and discover things." In his words, he meant that after a suspicion of bribery was investigated, suspicions of tax offenses were discovered during the investigation, and that in this case there is a reasonable chance of Deri's conviction. According to the recordings published on Channel 12, the advisor is interested in making a decision in the Shas chairman's case by the end of his term, in about three months. Mandelblit on Deri's alleged tax offenses: "There is a whole series of things and it is being worked out professionally through the police, through the prosecutor's office and reaching me, I don't know of any other way, I'm not willing to do anything else, even if it takes a long time. It's been there for a very long time. "Now it's terrible and horrible, there's a problem here, I'm responsible for the entire system here, if a soldier in the Gaza Strip is injured due to negligence or a training accident, then the Chief of Staff also bears responsibility. There is a problem in the system, I agree. Now it's a whole series of such incidents, smaller or larger. "It's not concrete, there's no concrete there, there are other things. Is there a reasonable chance of conviction? The answer, in my opinion, is yes. I intend for this matter to be decided one way or another before I finish my job.".