Attorney Yossi Ashkenazi, one of the lawyers on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's defense team, spoke to the media on Thursday on his way into the second day of Netanyahu's preindictment hearing.
"The attorney general's people are listening to us closely, and we're happy about that. We've presented documents that weren't part of the materials in the investigation," Ashkenazi said.
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"We argued for 11 hours in the hearing yesterday [Wednesday]. I think we'll need a similar amount of time today," Ashkenazi said.
Wednesday's hearing, like Thursday's is devoted to Case 4,000, the case in which Netanyahu faces the most serious potential charge – bribery. Case 4,000 centers around suspicions that Netanyahu, when serving as communications minister, gave the Bezeq telecom giant enormous financial benefits in exchange for favorable coverage of him and his family on the Bezeq-owned Walla news site.
After Wednesday's hearing, Netanyahu's defense team issued a statement in which they announced: "We have laid out very detailed materials that are supported by considerable evidence that contradicts what the list of possible indictment counts claims. The attorney general listened to us. We hope and believe that nothing will remain of those counts, and the cases will be closed."
A message sent out on behalf of Netanyahu said, "The prime minister's attorney, who prepared their answers for the hearing very thoroughly, made a series of arguments supported by considerable evidence, some new."
