State Attorney Office opposes easing of 'Qatargate' suspect Eli Feldstein's arrest conditions
The State Attorney's Office opposed easing the conditions of Eli Feldstein's arrest on Monday.
Feldstein, who is a defendant in the classified documents case and is suspected in the 'Qatargate' affair, is under house arrest. In contrast, the second suspect in both cases, Yonatan Urich, is under significantly more lenient conditions.
The response from the State Attorney's Office was submitted after Feldstein's lawyer requested to ease his conditions and match them to Urich's.
However, the State Attorney's Office argued that it is not possible to compare Feldstein, who is a defendant in the case, to Urich, who is a suspect.
It appears that both the prosecution and the legal advisor are dragging their feet in making a decision regarding Urich, in order to avoid transferring the investigation materials to him in the case. This fact impacts Feldstein's detention conditions as well as the progress of the case in the classified documents affair.
The court hearing in the classified documents case has been postponed while the prosecution is conducting additional investigations in the case, primarily regarding Urich and Feldstein.
These additional investigations are preventing defense attorneys from receiving the full investigation materials, despite the indictment having been filed in the case.
In its response, the prosecution and the legal advisor are blocking the progress of the case, even though both bodies could have decided whether to indict Urich in the classified documents case and close the case in the 'Qatargate' affair, since it is not possible to conduct a legal inquiry into the American-Jewish businessman, Jay Footlick.
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