To State Comptroller Lindenstrauss: Go Get Him!!

State Comptroller Investigating Suspicions of Bribes to Olmert

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Olmert allegedly paid for his Jerusalem luxury apartment less than half than what another apartment in the same building cost, per meter. He is also accused of accepting pens worth thousands.

Investigative reporter Yoav Yitzchak, who edits the Hebrew news site NewsFirstClass, has once again come out with evidence of possible bribe-taking and wrongful use of influence on the part of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

The matter is currently under investigation by State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss, whose office has questioned 25 witnesses so far.

The allegations can be summed up as follows: Olmert paid $3,306 per meter to buy a luxury Jerusalem apartment, while another potential buyer was told he would have to pay the equivalent of some $7,000 per meter for an apartment in the same building. Olmert’s purchase totaled $1.2 million, while the other man was quoted a total of $1.3 million, for a much smaller apartment of lesser quality.

NFC claims to have learned that, over the past year, Olmert decided to hide some of the pens and remove them from his home. For this purpose, he purchased six leather pouches, for 1,000 shekels each, that can each hold 40 pens in separate compartments. The pens were packed in the pouches and removed from his home.

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