Braverman, appealing terms of release, says police probe is ‘delusional, political’ |
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, filed an appeal Monday against the terms of his release from police custody, decrying what he called a “delusional, political investigation.”
Braverman was released Sunday night after he was interrogated at length about his alleged attempt to obstruct a probe into the leak of classified documents from the Prime Minister’s Office to German tabloid Bild.
Braverman is under restrictive conditions, including a 15-day ban on entering the Prime Minister’s Office and a 30-day ban on leaving the country, which risks delaying his entry into the post of ambassador to the United Kingdom.
“The bail conditions are extreme, unusual and clearly disproportionate,” Braverman’s lawyer, Jack Chen, told the Rishon Lezion District Court, in quotations carried by Hebrew media outlets.
Chen asserted that his client “was forced, late at night, to agree to the conditions of his release, while noting that ‘I am approving these conditions amid protest, given no choice. This is a delusional, political........