Police delay recommendation on indicting PM until after summit
Police were under considerable pressure to postpone recommendation on whether to charge PM over Bank Leumi sale.
By Jonathan Lis Tags: Ehud Olmert Bank Leumi Annapolis conferenceThe 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.
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.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. (Jini) |
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Under French Law Mr. Fayed would be legally liable for Diana's death because he sent out a drunken employee to drive her home. The way he hopes to avoid prosecution is by blaming everyone else. After ten years of investigations there is no shred of evidence that there was a royal plot to murder the mother of a future king.
Click, there can be no denying that a certain member of the royal family is deeply implicated in the protracted tragedy of the good Diana's life, that finally led to her shocking death in Paris.
Oh Jo Jo, why all this drama in Tel Aviv etc, and even dragging in what a few errant cops were doing (or not doing) in the hinterland of Naharia... After all, we can't hold Olmert responsible for everything...
"the dysfunctional royals that pillage and plunder billions of pounds are around, and yes, they are tainted by another royal`s murder in Paris." I am no lover of the Royal family, as Talkback regulars know, but there isn't the smallest scrap of proof that the Royal Family is implicated in the death of Princess Diana. This is the purest fabrication from a proven liar, the phoney pharaoh, Mohammed Fayed (the honorific "al" was self-awarded). This man can't accept that it was his own driver, Henri Paul, who, pissed as a rat, drove off at high speed to avoid the paparazzi, in the process killing his son Dodi and Diana in a Paris underpass. Fayed has to blame others for this accident, and by falsely blaming the Royal family, he is also getting back at Britain generally, for refusing to grant him a British passport some time back. We refused this because he's a crook and a liar.
Israel is the only country in the middle east where a corrupt leader might get arrested.In Arab countries they seem to get promoted or just behead their opponents.In the UK,a country riddled with corruption, such cases would probably never even make it into the newspapers.Ckickfool has waded in with snide anti semitic comments as usual.I am disappointed that Olmert has not been arrested but if he were, anti semitic elements such as clickfool would say it was a scheme to avoid Annapolis.Any story about something unfortunate that has happened in Israel attracts anti semitic riff raff like canine excrement attracts flies.
Smart police. They needed advice to arrive at such a self evident decision. Oy vay, Israel.
Arial Sharon bribed our legal system with the "Disengagement". The residents of Sderot, Ashdod, Nahal Oz, Gush Katif, etc. are paying the price. Our legal system is now letting Olmert bribe it with "Annapolis". Who will pay the price this time?
In Naharia a few low level police officers decided to take vigilante action and killa known criminal,which of course is improper, but the actions of the higher echelons of the police letting political pressure keep them from making known their intention of ndicting Prime Minister nad allowing him togo to Annapolis unscathed is evven more corrupt than anything he is charged with. Having a Prime Minister negotiating with Israels enemy with everything pending against him puts too much stress on even an honest man to act wisely. The safety of every Israeli right or left, settler or Tel Avivian is at risk.
I still can't understand why the dysfunctional royals that pillage and plunder billions of pounds are around, and yes, they are tainted by another royal's murder in Paris. Some clout in order to disguise the chaos of a not so great Britain.
WAR CRIMINAL SHARON was allowed to rule israel and "talk peace", WHY NOT a criminal Olmert? Clinton was allowed to talk peace while being investigated, all to which was a joke and will be a joke until the world gets tired of the zionist lie. Peace talks is nothing but dribble running out of the mouths of liers.
Forget the Annapolis circus, Olmert is coming to the US to seek asylum.
on an egalitarian basis is more important than to have this crook represent us in Annapolis. Livni and Barak can do it also and much better!
Whatever Olmert agrees has absolutely no standing whatsoever.He is under suspicion and to allow him to attendAnnapolis is like letting Katsav be a teacher at a girls school or letting Jack the Ripper be police chief of London.Nobody wants or respects Olmert.Let him seek asylum in the USA as he WILL be imprisoned in Israel.
"Police delay recommendation on indicting PM until after summit" The mental image of the Prime Minister of Israel, trying to look important on the world stage while in metaphorical handcuffs for corruption back home, was such that the judicial process had to be bent to accommodate the larger needs of the state.
Give our harried hard-working police-men a break. These guys rely on the weatherman, and he promised sunny skies on shabbat, so it was a real boon to be able to put off winding up that wobbley Leumi affair for the next week or so. Personally I'm all for the police, in this instance....
this is really a remarkable statement ? they know now but are holding the information for 5 days! i have no brief for the incompetent egoist olmert but this is disgraceful !
I am in agree with PM Olmert, is easy to see that this is the way that they use to damage his image, but time cover all and discover all too. About Mr. Frank Lowy , i wish to encourage jewish people, to know about this great man, all along his life he showed his feelings to each jews in needs. When i was living in Australia he helped me without know me, just because i am jew, and i remembered how he helped many others , nowaday his behavoir is untouchable, i am very proud of jews like him, the thing is that we need many jews like him. I send my respect to him, and i will be grateful forever. SHALOM
There is no way Olmert will be indicted. He said his hands are clean. Olmert says he is honest. Why should anyone disbelieve him. The police will drop the investigation and close the file. Lets see whether my prediction holds true.
With any luck at all, Olmert will seek political asylum in the United States, instead of giving Israel away. Alternate scenario is he gives Israel away, and THEN gives the country away/sells it to the Ragsters/ He can start up a Luftmenschen kind of business, using someone else's money, providing no service or product and living off the work of others. You know. Like he does now.
There have always been peace-at-any-price proponents among Israelis, but who ever might have thought that Ehud (Neville?) Olmert, of a Likud past, might be one them? Certainly nothing clears one's mind and creates the strong drive for true "peace" than possible indictment and being blamed for the death of 33 brave Israelis, z"l, by this troublesome Winograd fellow. Let us all hope that Olmert has developed magical and hypnotic abilities as he deals with the Palestinians and Americans. Otherwise Israelis will be counseled with calls for "restraint" while qassams fall on Savyon after the general and territorial surrender of the incompetent Olmert gang at this Annapolis fiasco.
Thats the idea. Bravo to Israeli government. Lets all thank our Sabbatean criminals. Let the little criminal go to Annapolis first and destroy Israel. Then bring some flimsy charges against him and play around for a while. You guys are really wonderful. This man is nothing more than a stooge for the CFR. He is just a pawn being used to sell out Israel. Hey, have you noticed how your other peace partner Egypt is letting weapons in through the Sinai to Gaza to kill more jews?
Why wait? Nothing is gained by not indicting this crook, and the sooner he is gone the better for Israel. By not indicting him your sending a weaken PM to negotiate for Israel and he will give up the Golan and anything else he can do to screw Israel.
in a safe place, and then make it public. Otherwise I will auapect this is yet another way of extracting from poor Olmert even more territorial and political concessions.