Israel police to decide Sunday if Olmert should be indicted
Police are close to reaching a decision on the Bank Leumi scandal Olmert was involved in:
The team of detectives investigating Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's possible corruption in the sale of Bank Leumi is expected to decide by Sunday whether the evidence gathered in the case justifies charging him.Already, there's as many as four potential cases filed on Olmert's corrupt activities, and I think that there is enough evidence on which to charge him.
Olmert, who was serving as finance minister at the time of the sale, is suspected of interfering in the privatization of the bank to benefit a friend.
The team of detectives from the National Fraud Investigation Unit will hold a hearing on the matter with head of police investigations and intelligence Major General Yohanan Danino, and will subsequently make their conclusions public.
After a decision is reached, the case file and the evidence included in it will be handed over to the prosecution.
Sources involved in the investigation reported that the decision whether or not to indict the prime minister will be influenced by the legal recommendations of the police and the state prosecution regarding how strongly they believe the evidence could lead to a fraud conviction.
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