In light of a poll presented on Voice of Israel today showing that most of the public - some 57% - feels that the media have exaggerated in their coverage of the Likud scandals as opposed to those in Labor, here are two more matters of Labor corruption that have received less attention than might be warranted. Haifa Likud activist Aviad Visuly wrote a letter to Moshe Mizrachi, head of the Investigations Bureau of Israel Police, in which he reminds him that Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein long ago ordered the complaints against Labor Party chief Amram Mitzna to be "immediately investigated." The charges involve bribery, deceit, and breach of trust. Visuly also quotes Rubenstein as saying that complaints that involve the election campaign, as these do, must especially be investigated forthwith.
The complaint states that the A. Levy Construction Company granted Mitzna office space three months ago near its own offices, from which Mitzna ran his campaign to become head of the Labor Party. In exchange, the complaint states, a month later Mitzna presented a request to the Planning and Construction Board of Haifa, of which he is the Chairman, asking that a "substantial exception" be granted to the A. Levy company in the Galilee Horizon Twins construction project in Haifa. In the framework of that exception, Visuly continues, the company built an extra floor on the buildings without a permit. The complaint states that the extra story was built illegally and fraudulently, via a forged construction permit comprised of pages from various permits patched together. The complaint further states that Mitzna knew of the forgery, and was even pressured by MK Yehudi Naot to file a police complaint. A complaint was in fact filed, but Mitzna still presented the A. Levy's case to the Board, without informing the members of the forged permit. Neither did Board Chairman Mitzna inform his colleagues of his conflict of interest, namely, the fact that A. Levy had granted him office space.
Visuly closed his letter to Mizrachi with an urgent request to investigate, in accordance with the Attorney-General's instructions, these "grave suspicions of bribery, deceit, and breach of trust regarding Amram Mitzna and his election campaign," immediately. Copies of the letter were sent to Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein, Public Security Minister Uzi Landau, Police Chief Shlomo Aharonishki, and others.
The complaint states that the A. Levy Construction Company granted Mitzna office space three months ago near its own offices, from which Mitzna ran his campaign to become head of the Labor Party. In exchange, the complaint states, a month later Mitzna presented a request to the Planning and Construction Board of Haifa, of which he is the Chairman, asking that a "substantial exception" be granted to the A. Levy company in the Galilee Horizon Twins construction project in Haifa. In the framework of that exception, Visuly continues, the company built an extra floor on the buildings without a permit. The complaint states that the extra story was built illegally and fraudulently, via a forged construction permit comprised of pages from various permits patched together. The complaint further states that Mitzna knew of the forgery, and was even pressured by MK Yehudi Naot to file a police complaint. A complaint was in fact filed, but Mitzna still presented the A. Levy's case to the Board, without informing the members of the forged permit. Neither did Board Chairman Mitzna inform his colleagues of his conflict of interest, namely, the fact that A. Levy had granted him office space.
Visuly closed his letter to Mizrachi with an urgent request to investigate, in accordance with the Attorney-General's instructions, these "grave suspicions of bribery, deceit, and breach of trust regarding Amram Mitzna and his election campaign," immediately. Copies of the letter were sent to Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein, Public Security Minister Uzi Landau, Police Chief Shlomo Aharonishki, and others.