Attorney General Menachem Mazuz
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Olmert, under investigation
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A-G: I'll rule on Olmert probe soon
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz says ruling on whether prime minister to be investigated for involvement in various affairs of corruption forthcoming
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said Sunday he would soon determine whether criminal investigations would be launched against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert regarding the various illicit affairs he was allegedly associated with.
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Last April State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss advised Mazuz to launch a criminal investigation against Olmert for suspicions that he appointed Likud cronies to ministerial posts during his tenure as Industry, Trade and Labor minister.
Mazuz said the probe into these suspicions, as well as into those involving the PM's purchase of a home on Cremieux Street in Jerusalem, was nearly completed.
Olmert is being probed for the purchase of the apartatment about a year-and-a-half ago, after reportedly receiving a $320,000 discount in exchange for expediting construction permits.
The attorney general said the examination of Olmert's alleged involvement in the privatization of Bank Leumi was being handled by the state prosecutor's office.
In January, the National Fraud Investigation Unit opened an investigation of the sale of Bank Leumi's controlling shares and the prime minister's alleged bribery offenses in the sales tender.
