Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday for suspected corruption.
At Olmert's home, police questioned him over suspicions that he tried, as finance minister in 2005, to tailor a sale offer for state-owned Bank Leumi to favor a friend, who ultimately never bid on Israel's second biggest bank.
Olmert has denied any wrongdoing in the case.
He is under another criminal investigation, which he described as "needless", into accusations he dispensed favors in return for a discount on the purchase price of a Jerusalem home in 2004. Olmert bought the house for $1.2 million and media reports said $320,000 was knocked off the price.
Israel's attorney-general is also considering whether to order a probe into suspicions that Olmert, as trade minister in 2003, appointed cronies to a state business authority and helped secure funding for a factory represented by his ex-law partner.
Source: China Daily/agencies
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