Police source: Anyone but Olmert would have been arrested by now
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Israel Police and the Justice Ministry released a joint statement Friday saying that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is suspected of asking a number of different public organizations, and the state, to pay for the same trips abroad. (article 4)
" The prime minister was asked to give his account about suspicions of serious fraud and other offenses said the police and the ministry joint statement, following a third round of questioning of Olmert in an ongoing corruption investigation. (article 4)
As far back as 1991, police investigated allegations that one or more third parties financed a trip overseas taken by the Olmert family and arranged through Rishon Tours. (article 2)
Israeli police said on Friday they had widened their corruption probe against Ehud Olmert who is now also suspected of double-billing for trips during his tenure as mayor of Jerusalem and trade minister. (article 7)
On Friday Mr Olmert was interviewed by the police for the third time in connection with the probe, which has so far centred on allegations that the prime minister received illegal funding from abroad. (article 7)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be questioned again Friday about the hundreds of thousands of dollars he allegedly received over 15 years from Jewish-American millionaire Morris Talansky. (article 3)
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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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Source articles
- Cinderella man (haaretz.com, 07/11/2008, 996 words)
- Olmert, Zaken, and Rishon Tours: A case of deja vu (haaretz.com, 07/12/2008, 663 words)
- Police source: Anyone but Olmert would have been arrested by now (haaretz.com, 07/11/2008, 652 words)
- Olmert suspected of defrauding state, charities to fund trips abroad (haaretz.com, 07/12/2008, 905 words)
- Olmert faces new financial allegations (L.A. Times, 07/11/2008, 642 words)
- /hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=1001278 (haaretz.com, 07/12/2008, 567 words)
- Israeli police widen Olmert probe (ft.com, 07/11/2008, 383 words)
- Olmert corruption probe widened (BBC News, 07/11/2008, 374 words)
- Israeli police widen Olmert probe (CNN, 07/11/2008, 330 words)
- /hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=1000501 (haaretz.com, 07/09/2008, 1166 words)
- Ehud Olmert will not contest leadership, officials say (timesonline.co.uk, 07/10/2008, 773 words)
- It was the first deadly attack in the region aroun... (Washington Post, 07/10/2008, 316 words)
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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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Olmert, Talansky, Minister, Police, prime |
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