Israel Police is looking into suspicions that former Prime Minister Ehud Barak held unreported capital in an overseas bank.
Israel Police's fraud squad and the Israel Money Laundering Prohibition Authority are jointly looking into suspicions that former Prime Minister Ehud Barak allegedly did not report money held in an overseas bank account.
At this stage there is no investigation but rather the matter is being looked into with the involvement of senior government officials including Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and State Attorney Shai Nitzan.
If the examination finds suspicions that capital was not reported then it is likely that the Israel tax Authority will also become involved.
At the end of last year, Channel 10 reported that the police had invited former Prime minister Ehud Olmert to give testimony on what he knew of suspicions that Barak had allegedly received a bribe and other favors when he was an elected official. This followed a taped conversation between Olmert and his office manager Shula Zaken in July 2011 in which Olmert told Zaken that Barak, "receives bribes worth tens of millions for every arms deal that Israel carries out." Olmert added that he had heard this from the head of the Mossad.
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