Israeli Attorney General Menahem Mazuz has okayed a police request to investigate Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's connection with a bank sale affair, the Jerusalem Post reported on its website.
The report said that so far the investigation centered only on people from Olmert's circle but not on the prime minister himself.
Olmert is suspected of intervening in the government tender for sale of the controlling interest in Bank Leumi, one of the major banks in Israel, to benefit his close personal associates.
The criminal investigation into the bank tender was opened in January, a year after Israeli State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss began to probe claims of favoritism on Olmert's part.
In October last year, Olmert had denied through his office any wrongdoing in the sale of Bank Leumi.
Source: Xinhua
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