Attorney and 4 others arrested: Suspected of suborning minors to give false testimony
According to the police, the attorney claimed to investigators from the Central District's YAMAR that she possessed evidence that could exonerate a defendant charged with serious security offenses in Ramle. Suspicion arose in the State Attorney's Office regarding the source of the materials, leading to an investigation.
The police announced that they arrested an attorney on Tuesday afternoon, along with four other individuals, on suspicion of subornation of perjury. The attorney represents a defendant charged with serious security offenses in a case in the city of Ramle, for which an indictment was filed last January.
"During the legal proceedings taking place at the Central District Court, while the defendant is being held in custody until the end of the proceedings, the attorney approached investigators from the Central District's YAMAR (Central Unit) in May and claimed that she possessed evidence that could exonerate her client. She provided the investigators with materials, which were transferred to the State Attorney's Office for examination. Upon receiving the materials, suspicion arose regarding their source, the manner in which they were obtained, and the timing of their submission, and accordingly, the Central District's YAMAR opened a covert investigation to examine the circumstances of the matter," the police stated.
The investigation suggests that the attorney, together with other suspects, including members of the defendant's family, approached several minors and their parents, residents of the center, in an attempt to induce them to provide false testimony to create an alibi for the defendant. The suspicion is that those involved offered money, and in other cases exerted pressure and made threats if they refused to cooperate. The police intend to bring all suspects to a hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Rishon LeZion tomorrow to request an extension of their detention.
The case in Ramle: Arson and shooting
The defendant, Modi Ghanem, allegedly equipped himself with an IDF fragmentation grenade and a pistol. Last December, expressing dissatisfaction with police actions against the Abu Ghanem family, the defendants carried out a plan to commit acts of terror by setting fire to vehicles belonging to Jews and firing at residential buildings. In one instance, a bullet penetrated a resident's kitchen. The indictment also reveals that the defendants attempted to throw a pipe bomb at a police patrol parking area, and Ghanem attempted to detonate a grenade in a residential parking lot, which failed to explode due to a malfunction.
