Former Aide Of Avigdor Liberman Claims He Offered Him $100,000 To Kill Senior Police Officer

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yossi Kamisa, a former assistant to finance minister Avigdor Lieberman, claimed last week that the Yisrael Beitenu leader had once offered him $100,000 to kill a high-ranking police officer.

Kamisa’s post accuses Lieberman of a number of crimes. In addition to trying to order the murder of a police officer, Kamisa said the finance minister was a partner in an illegal casino in Jericho, did business in the Congo and was involved in other crimes.

“In 2000, when Ehud Barak was the head of government and said that the secret services had compromising evidence on you, you took my phone and wrote to Martin Schlaff to force him to leave you behind,” Kamisa wrote in a Facebook post.

Lieberman’s former aide also accuses the finance minister of facilitating the appointments of Attorney General Shai Nitzan and government legal adviser Yehuda Weinstein in exchange for dropping cases against Lieberman.

In his post, Kamisa accuses the legal adviser of the government, Gali Baarav-Miara, of not verifying the information received from him and offers to check it with Lieberman on a polygraph.

In July of this year,  journalist  Ayala Chason published a message that the police had information at their disposal that a high-ranking politician told his associate several years ago that he was ready to pay 100 thousand dollars for the murder of one of the senior police officers. The officer, Sando Mazor, was involved in the investigation of the Baron-Chevron deal in 1998 and recommended indicting Liberman as well as Netanyahu and Deri. The state prosecution eventually indicted Deri alone.

Kamisa claimed that Liberman, who was Infrastructure Minister at the time, knew all about the police investigations and had marked certain officers who he felt were aiming to derail his political career.

Chason said that the the materials are at the disposal of the staff of the department for the investigation of serious crimes. (LAHAV-433). Chason said that this is not about rumors, but about specific information containing the names and dates of events. According to Ayala Chason, the verification of information is carried out very carefully, as it was received during the election campaign.

Later it became known that the legal adviser to the government, Gali Baarav-Miara, was studying the materials that were transferred to her from the police department for the investigation of serious crimes. Baarav-Miara was said to have to decide whether to launch a formal investigation into the case.

In response to Kamisa’s statements, those close to Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman reported the following: “Apparently, some people in political circles are panicking about Lieberman’s growing rating and the electoral strengthening of Yisrael Beitenu. Most likely, this panic is accompanied by hallucinations” .

Liberman denied that Kamisa had ever been an aide of his, although Kamisa offered to go with Liberman to a polygraph test and verify his claims.