By JPOST.COM STAFF
Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz announced on Monday his intention to open a criminal investigation against Asst.- Cmdr. Yoram Levy and Ch.-Insp. Reuven Gilboa for their alleged involvement in a shady deal nearly ten years ago with the underworld's Perinian family.
Mazuz made the announcement during a meeting with Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann following the release of the Zeiler Commission report on Sunday, which led to, among other things, the resignation of Israel Police Insp.-Gen. Moshe Karadi.
The report included an explicit recommendation to investigate the so-called "Batteries Affair," which occurred in 1998, when gas mask batteries were stolen from an IDF warehouse while the country was under threat of Iraqi bombardment. Gilboa allegedly found a way to get the batteries back "for a fee" from a source who turned out to be Oded Perinian, a brother in the southern crime family.
Mazuz and Friedmann also agreed at the meeting that the attorney-general would immediately set up a team to implement the Zeiler recommendations applicable to the Police Investigative Department and the state prosecutor.
Rebecca Anna Stoil contributed to this report.
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