Netanyahu’s Chief of Staff Accused of Fraud and Forgery

Tzachi Braverman, the Chief of Staff for the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is being accused of fraud and forgery.
 
(The Post News)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Chief of Staff, Tzachi Braverman, has been accused of fraud and forgery in connection with the illegal alteration of records in Netanyahu’s office. This was confirmed on Thursday after the court removed the gag order on the matter. 
 
 
On Thursday, Braverman spent over five hours being questioned by the authorities. He is accused of changing the claimed time when Netenyahu received a phone call from his military secretary at the time, Major General Avi Gil, regarding the October 7 Hamas invasion from 6:40 a.m. to 6:29 a.m. 
 
 
According to reports, Braverman allegedly tried to convince a secretary to alter the time on the transcript by claiming that it was incorrectly recorded as 6:40 a.m., but she declined, so he altered it himself. Meanwhile, Haaretz daily reported that Gil called Netenyahu at 6:29 a.m., when the Hamas invasion commenced; however, Netenyahu did not give him any instructions; instead, he told him to call back in 10 minutes, which was 6:40 a.m.
 
 
According to Haaretz daily, Netenyahu only instructed Gil to do a situational assessment about the looming Hamas invasion in the south of Israel during the second phone call, which Braverman purportedly manipulated to make it appear to be the first.
 
 
Shortly before Gil’s term ended, in May of this year, Gil informed Attorney General Gail Baharav-Miara of his suspicions on the matter, which prompted the launch of an inquiry into his suspicions. Baharav-Miara then notified Israel Police’s Lahav 433 major crimes unit, which launched an inquiry into a possible forgery by a public authority. 
 
 
In response to Braverman’s accusations, the office of the Prime Minister has strongly dismissed the accusations, describing them as yet another “complete fabrication,” which is a part of an unprecedented wartime meadia witch hunt toward Netenyahu’s office intended to hide the serious mistakes made by others on the evening of October 7.
 
Moreover, Breverman, too, has firmly refuted the accusations, noting that they are “severe slander” and reckless provocation, and he intends to sue Kan, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, if it refuses to retract the accusations and give a public apology after naming him in the blackmail case on Sunday. However, the network has maintained its initial report.

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