After the dramatic announcement that he is going to file criminal indictments against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Attorney General Dr. Avichai Mandelblit in the near future is expected to make a similar announcement regarding Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, according to a Yeshiva World News report.
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Litzman will face charges of bribery, breach of trust and fraud and Deri’s charges will include money laundering, fraud and breach of trust, as was reported by YWN.
According to a report released by KAN News11 correspondent Mordechai Gilit, the attorney general delayed the decisions regarding Deri and Litzman until completing his work on the cases involving Prime Minister Netanyahu, according to the YWN report.
State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan has recommended indictments against both Litzman and Deri. According to the report, the announcement by Mandelblit is expected in the coming weeks.
In August of this year, JTA reported that Litzman could face bribery charges for allegedly helping to prevent the shutdown of a food business that the health ministry determined had serious sanitation violations. He is also accused of offering special benefits to Health Ministry employees in exchange for their preventing the Jerusalem-area restaurant and catering service from being closed.
The Israeli police recommendation that Litzman be charged with bribery, fraud, witness tampering and breach of trust was announced in August.
JTA reported in August that in the ongoing case of Malka Leifer, Litzman is accused of pressuring Jerusalem district psychiatrist Jacob Charnes to say that Leifer was mentally unfit to stand trial. She is accused of molesting several girls while the principal of a haredi Orthodox girls’ school in Australia.
Litzman denies the accusations.