Ashkenazi lands in Israel to give evidence in Harpaz Affair

“I served 40 years in the army. I knew how to take responsibility and I always told the truth – this time as well,” former chief of staff quoted as saying.

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Ashkenazi 311 (photo credit: Channel 10)
Ashkenazi 311
(photo credit: Channel 10)
Former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.- Gen. (res.) Gabi Ashkenazi on Thursday landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in order to cooperate with an investigation by State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss into the so-called Harpaz Affair.
“I served 40 years in the army. I collected neither assets nor property. I knew how to take responsibility and I always told the truth – this time as well,” Channel 10 quoted Ashkenazi as saying.
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He will be summoned next week to the State Comptroller’s Office to provide further evidence in the case.
Ashkenazi added that supposedly new details – which have recently arisen in the affair regarding information uncovered by Channel 1 last week about ties between Harpaz and Ashkenazi’s wife, Ronit – were not new and have already been addressed during previous investigations.
In 2010, Lt.-Col. (res.) Boaz Harpaz, a former intelligence officer, allegedly forged a document that detailed fictitious plans to damage the reputations of senior IDF officers.