Hadashot information on Friday evening revealed particulars from the testimony of a former media adviser to the Netanyahu household on Sara Netanyahu’s alleged misappropriation of public funds on the households residences.
Nir Hefetz, who in March turned a state’s witness towards the prime minister, gave full particulars on his data of the case to police as a part of his deal.
Hefetz mentioned he was usually privy to Sara Netanyahu’s arguments with the Prime Minister’s Office’s authorized council and accountant, as they pushed again on her recurring efforts to have the state cowl the properties’ bills.
“Sarah sometimes used me too in order to [have me] convince them to approve expenses,” he reportedly mentioned. “I’m talking about dozens of cases…it was a sisyphic struggle.”
One element — if true — appeared notably petty, with the premier’s wife allegedly demanding “that the state pay NIS 10 ($2.8) for the ‘Big Brother’ [24/7 live feed] channel” in son Yair’s room.
“She wanted to replace all the windows at the Caesarea home, because someone might shoot the prime minister,” Hefetz mentioned. “She wanted to change all of the plaster on the villa, asserting that a piece of plaster may fall on the prime minister’s head.
“There are many more examples, there was a wealth of incidents that exhausted the system,” Hefetz mentioned in accordance to Hadashot.
In response the Netanyahu household mentioned “We cannot on a Friday evening, shortly before the newscast, respond to such a heap of gossip and lies.”
The prime minister’s wife was indicted Thursday together with Ezra Saidoff, a former deputy director normal of the Prime Minister’s Office, with fraud together with breach of belief. The two are accused of fraudulently charging some NIS 359,000 ($100,000) in gourmand meals to the state’s expense between 2010 and 2013, violating legal guidelines that ban the ordering of ready meals when a chef is already employed on the official residence.
She has denied any wrongdoing within the case.