Suspicion checked that Likud submitted false testimony to the Supreme Court regarding the State Comptroller elections

The Attorney General has instructed the police to investigate a suspicion of false testimony by the Likud party. The Attorney General's directive concerns the claim that Knesset members were required to photograph their ballots for the State Comptroller. MK Sharren Haskel claimed that an order was given to photograph and the documentation was transferred to the Prime Minister. Haskel's words contradict the affidavits of Likud members, according to the suspicion. The police may take open testimony from Haskel before deciding on opening a criminal investigation.

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and State Attorney Amit Aisman instructed the police to check whether Likud members gave false testimony to the Supreme Court when they claimed they did not order themselves to be photographed in the State Comptroller elections, in which Michael Ravilo was elected. As recalled, the Supreme Court disqualified the lawyer's election to the position after ruling that the Knesset acted against the law when they photographed their votes, thereby violating the secrecy of the vote.

The Likud movement, in the discussion and in an affidavit to the Supreme Court, declared that no one ordered the Knesset members to photograph themselves and that whoever documented themselves voting did so of their own free will. However, Knesset member Sharren Haskel, in a supplementary affidavit to the Supreme Court, stated that the Knesset members were ordered to photograph themselves and the photos were transferred to the Prime Minister.

Therefore, since there is a frontal contradiction between what MK Haskel testified in the affidavit to the Supreme Court and the affidavit of the Likud movement, the Attorney General instructed the police to take open testimony from the Knesset member, not as a suspect. If she indeed repeats the things, a decision will be made whether to open a criminal investigation on suspicion that false testimony was submitted to the Supreme Court regarding the elections for the position of State Comptroller.

Haskel submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court as part of the petition in which she demands to be allowed to split from the National Right faction, after announcing her resignation from the position of Deputy Foreign Minister. Journalist Avishai Grinzaig published on i24NEWS that Haskel claimed in the affidavit that during a repeat voting round for the election of the State Comptroller, members of the New Hope faction were required to document their vote. These things stand in contradiction to the affidavits previously submitted by Likud CEO David Sharan and a series of Likud Knesset members. Sharan and the Knesset members denied in their affidavits the claim that there was a requirement to document the vote. Now, Haskel claimed in a signed affidavit that not only was there a requirement for documentation, but that the Knesset members had to present it to the Prime Minister.