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Police source: Anyone but Olmert would have been arrested by now
Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English
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Police have widened an investigation into allegations of corruption against Israeli PM Ehud Olmert to also look at whether he may have committed fraud. (article 1)
Mr Talansky has said some of the money was used for expensive personal items, and funds intended as loans were never repaid. (article 1)
Ehud Olmert's tenuous grip on power weakened further yesterday when officials of his ruling Kadima party suggested that he would not contest the leadership primaries in September. (article 2)
Already reeling from a corruption scandal, the fallout from the disastrous war in Lebanon two years ago and poor opinion poll ratings, the Israeli Prime Minister is being asked not to run for re-election by concerned members of his own party. (article 2)
Today Mr Olmert will be questioned for the third time by police investigating allegations that he accepted bribes, in the form of cash stuffed into envelopes, from Morris Talansky (article 2)
A recent poll by the daily Yediot Ahronot indicated that less than a quarter of Israelis believed that Mr Olmert should remain in power, while less than half supported the current diplomatic initiatives he was taking on behalf of the state. (article 2)
December 2006 He ignored calls to resign after he acknowledged for the first time, accidentally, that Israel had nuclear weapons. (article 2)
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Olmert, Talansky, Minister, Police, prime |
Source articles
- Olmert corruption probe widened (BBC News, 07/11/2008, 374 words)
- Ehud Olmert will not contest leadership, officials say (timesonline.co.uk, 07/10/2008, 773 words)
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