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Mon 09 Sep 2008Israeli police recommend indicting Olmert
ISRAEL:THE POLICE yesterday recommended that Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert be indicted on charges of bribery and fraud in two separate corruption cases that have forced the Israeli leader to announce he will step down later this month.
In one case, Mr Olmert is alleged to have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from an American-Jewish businessman over a 15-year period before he became prime minister. In the second case, which also relates to a period before he became prime minister, Mr Olmert allegedly double-billed charity organisations that had sent him abroad to do work for them.
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