Overview
- The IT chief and an IT manager testified to four meetings with the Israeli team, described pressure built on an alleged attack date linked to the ex‑husband, and said no proof was shown before the company ordered contacts stopped.
- Presiding judge Isabel Hildebrandt threatened an arrest warrant if witness pressure is found after Block contacted a witness, while a jailed Israeli co‑defendant relayed unverified reports of pressure on potential witnesses in Israel.
- Defense lawyers asked to suspend proceedings to review more than one terabyte of newly admitted data from 34 devices, with the court’s decision pending after extending the schedule through June 2026.
- An LKA cybercrime investigator outlined standard penetration‑test procedures and said lengthy tests of the kind described are uncommon, undercutting the IT‑only explanation.
- The boy will not testify and the daughter’s appearance was moved to mid‑December, and on Wednesday the court rejected a recusal bid before proceeding to review evidence in the 22nd session.