Sohlberg on election suspicions: the information has not yet matured into evidence

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Justice Noam Sohlberg, chairman of the Central Elections Committee, addressed the suspicions related to the elections and said the suspicions are serious. According to him, there is repeated and ongoing harm to the election investigation due to leaks.

Sohlberg said that classified information was presented in the affair of the suspicion of bribery in the elections, but so far it has not matured into actual evidence. He added that the information may never mature, and that days will tell.

Regarding the investigation of the suspicion of foreign influence, Sohlberg noted that the Attorney General did not refuse the Shin Bet's investigation requests. He said the leaks harm the security aspects of the investigation, and attacked them sharply as a "plague."