RAMALLAH: Israeli police’s National Fraud Unit questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert under caution yesterday for the fifth time in a criminal investigation being held against him.
The two most prominent investigations involve suspicions that Olmert took bribes from American businessman Morris Talansky, who was central to the police investigation of alleged illegal cash transfers to Olmert, and the Rishon Tours in which the prime minister is suspected of double billing charities and a government ministry, and using the excess to fund family trips abroad. Olmert has been under official investigation in recent months over allegations of corruption in his former capacities as Jerusalem mayor and trade minister.
