The pieces of the Olmert investigation puzzle are beginning to fit together. At today's hearing on former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his chief of staff Shula Zaken, prosecutor Adv. Uri Korev said that there was a link between the Holyland affair and the Investments Promotion Center and the Moshe Talansky envelope full of money affairs, which are currently winding their way though the courts.
Korev said, "There is an interface between the new investigation material and the investigation material found in the case and indictment, especially with regard to the evidentiary aspects of the financing of Olmert's election campaigns."
Korev added that, after three months of hard and unprecedented work, the investigation into the Holyland case was reaching its final stages, and a decision on whether to file indictments would be made soon, including indictments against Olmert and Zaken. Olmert is suspected of accepting millions of shekels in bribes when he was mayor of Jerusalem in exchange for facilitating the Holyland residential project. Zaken is suspected of accepting and arranging bribes.
Korev said that the Prosecutors Office was now processing the significance of the interfaces between the various cases in which Olmert was involved, and that the relevant investigation material would be delivered to the Olmert and Zaken's defense team as soon as possible.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on July 15, 2010
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