Celebrated attorney Ronel Fisher was remanded for the second time in late April in connection with an alleged bribery case involving police officers. The latter are suspected of leaking inside information on cases under investigation in exchange for a payoff. Fisher had first been detained in July 2014, but was subsequently released to house arrest, and the investigation has been stalled until recently. This time, the investigation that led to his arrest was far more dramatic. The police managed to decode encrypted information stored on his cell phone. It turned out that Fisher and retired police officer Eran Malka allegedly used to exchange encoded information using an application developed especially for this purpose. Cracking it, the investigators discovered the two's methods: Malka seems to have passed on to Fisher highly classified information from police investigations, while the lawyer collected bribe money on his behalf from the suspects under interrogation.
The exposure has brought to light one of the most serious public corruption cases in Israel, allegedly involving former Tel Aviv District Prosecutor Ruth David, senior police officers and a top lawyer. That is to say, top-ranking law enforcement officials have been implicated in alleged systematic corruption, and the evidence pointing to their involvement is steadily accumulating.
