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Israel Police sought to prolong restrictions on PMO aide Yonatan Urich, a key Qatargate suspect, saying more steps are needed to complete the probe.<\/p>\n
Israel Police requested on Wednesday to extend the restricted measures imposed on Yonatan Urich<\/a>, an advisor to the prime minister and one of the chief suspects in the \u201cQatargate\u201d investigations, for 60 days.<\/p>\n At the hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate\u2019s Court, police representative Aviv Porat<\/a> explained that some of the investigative measures have been used and exhausted, but not all, and what the police wants to do would require the approval of the most senior figures in the Justice Ministry.<\/p>\n This same scenario took place just a few weeks ago, when Rishon Lezion Magistrate\u2019s Court judge Menahem Mizrahi denied the request to extend the measures, the police appealed to the Lod District, and there, Judge Amit Michles overturned the request and reinstated the measures.<\/p>\n At that hearing, the police\u2019s investigative unit said it expects the investigation will wrap up within the next few weeks.<\/p>\n Urich, along with the former military spokesman in the Prime Minister\u2019s OfficeEli Feldstein,<\/a> was arrested in March on suspicion of working on a public relations campaign for Qatar while working in the PMO and close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n