Fraud Charges: Olmert to Be Questioned

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Jerusalem: Israel's caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be questioned for the ninth time by the national fraud investigation squad on alleged charges of graft, which forced him to resign following pressures from coalition partners and leaders within his own Kadima Party.

"The Prime Minister will be questioned at his official residence in Jerusalem on Friday," National police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, said.

The session is expected to take approximately two hours, the police said.

Investigators recommended in September to indict Olmert over suspicions that he had accepted cash-stuffed envelopes in bribes from a US businessman Morris Talanskyand for billing the same overseas trips several times to pay for his family's private trips abroad, dubbing them as "breach of trust".

Olmert announced to step down in August which led to primaries in his Kadima Party to elect a new leader.

The newly elected leader of the party, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, failed to muster majority support in the Knesset and asked the President to call for snap polls.

The Prime Minister will continue in his office till polls are held on February 10 and a new government is formed.



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