22:33, March 31, 2015
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been found guilty of accepting bribes in a corruption retrial at Jerusalem District Court.
Monday’s verdict found that the 69-year-old former statesman, who was Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, illegally accepted US$153,950 from US businessman Morris Talansky while serving in earlier roles as a cabinet minister.
He was found guilty of fraud and breach of trust.
The same court had cleared Olmert in 2012 on a series of fraud charges, including allegations that he received envelopes stuffed with hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Talansky when he was mayor of Jerusalem and, later, a cabinet minister.
Armenian News
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