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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. (Jini) del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 22:25 23/11/2007 Police delay recommendation on indicting PM until after summit By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Ehud Olmert, Annapolis summit  The Israel Police decided Friday to delay its recommendation on whether to indict Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for suspected impropriety in the sale of Bank Leumi, until after next week's U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland. Olmert, who was serving as finance minister at the time of the sale, is suspected of interfering in the privatization of the bank to benefit a friend, Australian tycoon Frank Lowy. The prime minister was questioned under caution in the affair last month. The police, which had originally planned to issue the recommendation on Sunday - just two days before the summit - were under considerable political pressure to delay the recommendation until after the prime minister's return from the U.S. Advertisement The police had been approached on the matter by numerous MKs and public figures. Major General Yohanan Danino, the head of police investigations and intelligence, decided Friday on the delay following consultations on the matter. Once Danino and the team of detectives from the National Fraud Investigation Unit reach a decision on whether there is enough evidence to indict the prime minister, the case file and the evidence included in it will be handed over to the prosecution. Related articles: Police to decide Sunday whether Olmert should be indicted for fraud Olmert: My 'hands were clean' in the sale of state's Leumi shares Police: If PM provides 'reasonable' answer over Leumi affair, case will be closed Bookmark to del.icio.us After six decades A Holocaust survivor meets her rescuer for the first time in 62 years. Terror high A group led by U.S. senators seeks closure of a Saudi Islamic school in Virginia.   1.   They have write down their decision 23:00  |  Vladimir 23/11/07   2.   Indict Olmert Now He is a crook 23:30  |  Shepherd 23/11/07   3.   Thats the idea, let little criminal go to destroy Israel first 23:41  |  Yonatan Ben Cohen 23/11/07   4.   Neville Olmert and His Magical Peace Dealings ? 23:43  |  Yoram 23/11/07   5.   Israel may yet be saved 01:18  |  Gideon Reader 24/11/07   6.   indictment 05:24  |  Marcel 24/11/07   7.   Is very easy to talk about others, with no responsability 05:41  |  adrian berolsky 24/11/07   8.   the sword of damocles and is it to drop? 09:16  |  victor hardman 24/11/07   9.   Seeing it the Israeli way.... 12:01  |  Esther 24/11/07   10.   It wouldn`t look too good for Israel, would it? 13:08  |  Clickfool 24/11/07   11.   THE POLICE HAVE FAILED THE ISRAELI PUBLIC AND THE WORLD 14:01  |  B.Heddem 24/11/07   12.   WRONG DECISION. LAW ENFORCEMENT 14:07  |  Robert 24/11/07   13.   Asylum for Olmert 14:26  |  chelemer 24/11/07   14.   dribble dribble 15:22  |  kleenex PLEASE 24/11/07   15.   Clickfool 17:21  |  wondering 24/11/07   16.   police corruption 19:38  |  Jo Jo 24/11/07   17.   Indictment delay 19:49  |  Dr. David Feigenbaum 24/11/07   18.   Duh. They really couldn`t make a sensible decision themselves? 20:02  |  Shelley 24/11/07   19.   # 10 # ISRAEL NOT AFRAID TO WASH DIRTY LAUNDRY " 20:25  |  B.Heddem 24/11/07   20.   For Wondering # 15 22:08  |  Clickfool 24/11/07   21.   Re Jo Jo #16 00:28  |  Esther 25/11/07   22.   Re Click in defence of the royals #20 00:41  |  Esther 25/11/07   23.   `#20 and 21 Clickfool 02:10  |  Sherlock Holmes 25/11/07

Today Online PM: Maintaining status quo with Palestinians endangers Israel Responses: 293 IDF major charged for offering to spy for Iran, Hamas Responses: 101 Abbas: Israel, PA failed to agree on a joint statement Responses: 133 Bradley Burston: Sudanese refugees and survivors' children - a kinship of genocide Responses: 75 ANALYSIS: PA should have set the bar higher at the outset Responses: 102 Sharansky: Israel again making mistake of strengthening 'moderate' PA tyrants Responses: 101 Rosner's Domain Think of Annapolis as a big party Rosner's Guest: the pervasiveness of "groupthink" in the academy Christmas wars, again? (WTR) Poll: Can the Israeli-Palestinian status quo be maintained? More Headlines 02:51 U.S. inviting Syria to summit due to air strike 01:04 Ahead of summit, Hamas threatens to make deadlier Qassam rockets 18:41 Two Palestinians killed by IDF fire near Gaza security fence 15:54 Holocaust survivor meets her rescuer for first time in 62 years 02:45 Two dozen oak trees found cut down in Mount Meron reserve 15:55 Mild quake jolts central Israel just days after Dead Sea tremor 01:52 Iranian VP: Iran produces nuclear fuel to power reactor 16:53 Lebanon PM: No state of emergency, gov't will assume pres. powers 15:25 Soldier shoots 2 women, himself with IDF-issued gun in Eilat 22:25 Police delay recommendation on indicting PM until after summit Previous Editions Select Day 23 nov 22 nov 21 nov 20 nov 19 nov 18 nov 16 nov 15 nov 14 nov 13 nov 12 nov 11 nov

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