Police Recommend Multiple Corruption Indictments of PM Olmert
Following a meeting that lasted much of the day, the national police announced Sunday evening that they have decided to recommend that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert be indicted on multiple charges of bribery, fraud, breach of trust and other offenses.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s lawyers said Sunday that the police’s recommendations to indict Olmert “have no meaning.”
“The only person authorized by law to decide whether or not to press charges against the Prime Minister is the Attorney General,” the lawyers declared. “He has the authority and he bears the responsibility in this matter,” they added.
An Olmert advisor commented even before the announcement was made that the police had no choice but to recommend indictment, otherwise they would not be able to justify “causing the fall of an incumbent Prime Minister.”