Israeli fraud squad quizzes Olmert over property scandal

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JERUSALEM: Israel’s fraud squad questioned former prime minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday for the second time in a week over his alleged involvement in a huge property scandal, police said.

“He was questioned for eight hours and is scheduled to be interviewed again next week,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.

He faced questioning for the same amount of time on Tuesday. Olmert, who is already on trial on three unrelated counts of fraud and bribery, was quizzed at a police station in Lod near Tel Aviv.

The investigation reportedly centres on his alleged role in a property scandal involving bribes from developers building a grandiose residential project in Jerusalem called the Holyland complex.

Last month, prosecutors named Olmert as a key suspect in the Holyland affair in which he is suspected of having taken bribes totalling some 3.5 million shekels (one million dollars). afp