Shas MK Arye Deri will resign from the Knesset and admit to mild tax offenses as part of a plea deal which will keep him out of prison, N12 news reported on Monday.
Deri will remain chairman of the Shas Party, but will resign from the Knesset. He will run for Knesset again in the next Knesset elections, according to the report.
There were mixed signals from the Justice Ministry with a refusal to comment on the record, but indications that the leaked deal might be in the cards, while at the same time there might be further developments relating to stiffer conditions for a plea deal.
The leak comes after a prior leak on November 25, seemingly by Deri's messengers, that he would not agree to any plea deal with any serious political consequences which would force Mandelblit to file an indictment the next day. That leak proved untrue, but was more forcefully denied by the ministry.