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AG set to indict Israel Prisons chief in probe linked to Ben Gvir

www.timesofisrael.com·Emanuel Fabian and Stav Levaton·about 1 month ago
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Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has decided to file an indictment against Israel Prison Service Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi, after nearly a year of deliberation on the matter . Yaakobi will be charged with breach of trust and obstructing an investigation, Hebrew media reported on Tuesday. He is suspected of informing Avishai Muallem, a former senior police detective in the West Bank, of a covert probe in which Muallem was a suspect. In July, the State Attorney’s Office first announced it was considering filing charges, subject to a hearing, against the top warden. Muallem, who has since been indicted, was being probed on suspicion of papering over investigations into Jewish nationalist violence in a bid to curry favor with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Yaakobi, who served as Ben Gvir’s security secretary at the time before moving to the Prison Service, is suspected of leaking the probe’s existence to Muallem over a wiretapped phone call.…

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