Criminal Case (Jerusalem) 28759-05-15 State of Israel v. Eran Malka - part 21

Illegal Recruitment of State Witnesses and Lack of Documentation of the Negotiations - It was claimed that the Department for the Investigation of Police acted systematically and deliberately in contravention of the law and guidelines during the recruitment of key state witnesses in the case, including: State Witness, Malka, Hassan, and Ayalon Machluf (hereinafter: Machluf) and Sassoon is alive.  The lack of documentation violated the Attorney General's directive, and prevented the defense from tracing the background and motives that led to the delivery of the versions of these witnesses.  In addition, the investigators committed improper acts during the interrogations of state witnesses.  Towards State Witness Extortion, threats and disruption were taken.  The head of the investigation team, Dubi Scherzer, denied her legal advice, and when he interrogated her, he used verbal violence, sexual violence, and sexual extortion.  The interrogators disrupted her interrogation, had lengthy conversations with her in the parking lot before and in the middle of the interrogations, took her out of the interrogation room when she gave a version that was uncomfortable for them, and when she returned to the room she was found to have a completely different version (for example, regarding the transfer of money from Fisher to Malka).  The preliminary agreements between Moshe Saada (Deputy Director of the Department for the Investigation of Police) andQueen (through Adv. Bartal) Prior to the state's witness agreement, they disappeared, and their existence was denied by the Department for the Investigation of Police.  Malka was sexually and medically blackmailed (threats that information about him would be published on these matters).  Only nearly eight years after the beginning of the proceedings did it become clear that Malka had provided intelligence information that was not documented and disappeared.  During his interrogation, the interrogators hung versions in his mouth (for example, in the "Ofer Nimrodi affair"), and made sure that this was not reflected in the transcript of the interrogation.  State Witness Sasson Chai He received a tremendous benefit in the form of not being prosecuted for a serious offense of bribery, even though he incriminated himself, and without any explanation being found, nor any documentation of the negotiations that took place with him after the indictment was filed, while in his interrogation prior to the filing of the indictment, he denied the suspicion.  The fact that the Machluf A state witness was fraudulently denied by the Department for the Investigation of Police, and this led to a judicial decision that would not have been made if the truth had not been hidden.  In addition, the contacts that were conducted with Machluf prior to his statement were concealed, and it was claimed that he had come to the Department for the Investigation of Police on his own initiative in order to give testimony.