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>"The police recommendations regarding me and my wife don't surprise anyone," Netanyahu said in a statement. "These recommendations were decided upon and leaked

>"The police recommendations regarding me and my wife don't surprise anyone," Netanyahu said in a statement. "These recommendations were decided upon and leaked even before the investigation began." Isn't this entirely normal for criminal investigations? First you decide that someone is probably doing something bad, then you investigate and indict?

dogma1138 8y ago
No, the investigation is performed in order to decide if there is sufficient evidence to recommend an indictment. The investigation is the part in which they collect the evidence, witness statements and perform a review of the case. Then they pass their recommendation for a judicial review which would review the case and take into consideration the recommendation of the investigators and decide if there is sufficient evidence to proceed with an indictment or not, then it goes to the state attorney which has the final say. If indicted the PM can appeal to the parliament within 30 days to request immunity, however an immunity as far as I know never been granted and over the past few decades Israel has indicted and prosecuted several high ranking politicians including former PMs so their judicial system seems to work pretty well. The statement was referring to the claim that the recommendation text was leaked prior to the investigation being completed apparently the text was very simmilar to some leaked documents form 2 years ago. Essentially over the past few years every month or so there was a leak that said an indictment will be recommended sometimes accompanied by the text of the recommendation, but this time it was an official recommendation. Likely they had the legal text recommending an indictment worked on before the investigation was completed as it likely would demand quite a bit of work and approval to meet the legal nuances required for such a document.
smsm42 8y ago
Not really, the purpose of investigation is to find out whether the crime actually happened and whether it can be proven (sometimes it may be either a mistake or deliberately misleading change by somebody with much to gain if the accused person is hurt, and police can check legal dealings by senior politicians to ensure they are indeed legal), so the outcome of the investigation is not known upfront, and can come out any way, depending on the evidence. What Netanyahu is saying, that it wasn't a honest investigation since the investigators were intending, for political reasons, to recommend to indict regardless of what the actual evidence - unknown to them by then - showed. Whether it is true or not, I don't know - in Israeli politics there's a fair share of both crooked politicians and biased policing, so could be either way (or even both ways). The boundaries between business and politics are not very thick in Israel anyway, so there's a lot of space for both corrupt dealings and accusations in such without hard proof (which is sometimes very hard to come by and relies on "he said/she said" evidence).

dogma1138 8y ago

No, the investigation is performed in order to decide if there is sufficient evidence to recommend an indictment. The investigation is the part in which they collect the evidence, witness statements and perform a review of the case. Then they pass their recommendation for a judicial review which would review the case and take into consideration the recommendation of the investigators and decide if there is sufficient evidence to proceed with an indictment or not, then it goes to the state attorney which has the final say. If indicted the PM can appeal to the parliament within 30 days to request immunity, however an immunity as far as I know never been granted and over the past few decades Israel has indicted and prosecuted several high ranking politicians including former PMs so their judicial system seems to work pretty well. The statement was referring to the claim that the recommendation text was leaked prior to the investigation being completed apparently the text was very simmilar to some leaked documents form 2 years ago. Essentially over the past few years every month or so there was a leak that said an indictment will be recommended sometimes accompanied by the text of the recommendation, but this time it was an official recommendation. Likely they had the legal text recommending an indictment worked on before the investigation was completed as it likely would demand quite a bit of work and approval to meet the legal nuances required for such a document.

smsm42 8y ago

Not really, the purpose of investigation is to find out whether the crime actually happened and whether it can be proven (sometimes it may be either a mistake or deliberately misleading change by somebody with much to gain if the accused person is hurt, and police can check legal dealings by senior politicians to ensure they are indeed legal), so the outcome of the investigation is not known upfront, and can come out any way, depending on the evidence. What Netanyahu is saying, that it wasn't a honest investigation since the investigators were intending, for political reasons, to recommend to indict regardless of what the actual evidence - unknown to them by then - showed. Whether it is true or not, I don't know - in Israeli politics there's a fair share of both crooked politicians and biased policing, so could be either way (or even both ways). The boundaries between business and politics are not very thick in Israel anyway, so there's a lot of space for both corrupt dealings and accusations in such without hard proof (which is sometimes very hard to come by and relies on "he said/she said" evidence).