according to shafir, the layoffs were made against the police handling of corruption of elected officials from his party's minister of the interior and the police. the case became to be known as ""peach bag"". "peach bag" never matured into specific charges and attribute this to the dismissal of police commissioner shafir. shafir eventually admitted that he had leaked false information to the press on the investigation of the government minister, however he rejected all other allegations.