Zaken. Won't have time to recover from jetlag
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Olmert. Next person to be questioned
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Shula Zaken 'to spend night at police station'
Former Prime Minister Olmert's bureau chief expected to be questioned Monday, immediately after returning from long vacation abroad, on suspicion of being involved in Holyland corruption affair
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's
bureau chief, Shula Zaken, will land in Israel
on Monday afternoon following a long vacation abroad, and is expected to be questioned about the Holyland corruption affair immediately
after her return.
The police believe that Zaken's interrogation is very important in order to complete the complicated investigation into the corruption affair, which has already been defined as one of the most serious scandals in the State's history.
"I don't know if we'll be waiting for her at Ben-Gurion Airport, but it's safe to assume that she will spend the night in the police station," a senior police official told Ynet on Sunday night.
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Zaken has known about her expected interrogation for a week now, after investigators of the National Fraud Investigation Unit visited her house and summoned her. The police have yet to decide whether they should wait for her at the airport and arrest her, or summon her for a questioning session later on.
In any event, despite the desire to avoid any "drama", a police official clarified that "shortly after arriving in Israel, she will be in the interrogation room."
According to the official, Zaken will be met by a special investigation team with a file of evidence and questions, which the investigators suspect she will be able to answer.
Her interrogation is also expected to have implications on the interrogation of former Prime Minister Olmert. After being questioned, she will likely be brought before a judge.
The investigators hope to put Zaken under an intensive interrogation in the coming days in order to be able to move on to Olmert. Despite being the most senior suspect, the former prime minister's part in the affair is not the biggest.
"Immediately after questioning Zaken, we will summon Olmert as well and confront him with the documents and evidence we collected from the other suspects," a senior law enforcement official told Ynet.
Aviad Glickman contributed to this report
