Israel AG Who Indicted Netanyahu Files Complaint Over Threats

(Bloomberg) -- Israel’s Attorney General Avihai Mandelblit, who indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged corruption last year, filed a complaint with the police Wednesday over a series of threats he said he’d received starting the previous night.

The threats came mainly through text messages “in an organized manner, which continued throughout the night and morning,” according to a statement from the Justice Ministry. There was no mention of the case against Netanyahu, which is set to begin on May 24, in the statement.

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