Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed police recommendations released on Sunday that he be charged with various corruption offences as “nothing” and “witch hunt,” but then suggested that they were provoked by a “conflict of interests.”
Netanyahu accused police of bringing charges against him and his wife because departing Police Chief Inspector-General Roni Alsheich accused the Israeli power couple of sabotaging the probe by allegedly hiring private investigators to track police detectives – an allegation Netanyahu called “crazy claims,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
At an earlier meeting of his Likud party, Netanyahu remarked that all parties involved in the ongoing corruption cases against him and his wife appeared to be taking the legal proceedings more seriously than him, adding that police recommendations have “no legal standing.”