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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
[Within this century]Police: Olmert travel expenses probe likely to yield indictment

Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: "within two weeks... the prosecution is expected to
decide whether it could indict Olmert."

Could be.

On the other hand, don't be surprised if AG Mazuz simply adds this very
straightforward affair, that under other circumstance would promptly
generate an indictment that would send Olmert packing, to the pile.

Let's give AG Mazuz credit where credit is due.

He genuinely believes that it serves the interests of Israel to withdraw
from the Golan and the West Bank.

So it isn't out of love of Olmert - nor was it love for Sharon - that we
have this ongoing "Etrog" situation. It's love of country.]

Police: Olmert travel expenses probe likely to yield indictment
By Jonathan Lis Haaretz Last update - 12:14 22/07/2008
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1004137.html

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is suspected of paying for dozens of family
flights with money he received via the Rishon Tours travel agency.

Each organization that paid Olmert's travel bills through Rishon Tours
believed its contributions were covering Olmert's working trips abroad, and
was not aware that several different organizations were actually financing
the same flights.

"We're talking about many family trips, of at least two family members each
time, whose tickets were covered by that account in Rishon Tours," Police
sources said Monday.

The police have asked Olmert to schedule another interview within two weeks.
The next questioning session is expected to be longer than the previous
ones.

During that period, the prosecution is expected to decide whether it could
indict Olmert.

"The Rishon Tours case is clear cut and well-based, and will probably result
in an indictment," sources familiar with the investigation said.

Police raided Rishon Tours' Rishon Letzion office a few weeks ago, and found
receipts that allegedly indicated that several bodies had financed the same
flights for Olmert.

The police are focusing on at least 12 flights that Olmert had taken while
serving in previous positions. While Olmert allegedly received state funding
for work trips, his flight coordinator Rachel Risby-Raz and former bureau
chief Shula Zaken asked one or more other public bodies to finance the same
flights.

The surplus money in Olmert's Rishon Tours account exceeded NIS 110,000,
which police suspect was used to pay for Olmert and his family members'
private flights.

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