Shula Zaken, former chief of staff to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, agreed this afternoon (Thursday) to sign a plea agreement with the State Attorney's Office in the Holyland case. As part of the deal, she will serve 11 months in prison.
Zaken, who in previous contacts with the prosecutor's office agreed to serve a prison sentence, refused to do so in the current round of talks, after providing the prosecutor's office with solid evidence about a case that has not yet been investigated, documenting Olmert's obstruction of an investigation.
Last night, just five days before the verdict in the case, Zaken testified at the offices of the police's Lahav Unit 433. Her associates claimed that she gave investigators a tape in which Olmert was allegedly heard disrupting the proceedings, asking her not to sign a state witness agreement with the prosecutor's office.
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The former prime minister's associates responded today to reports that the police believe there is a basis for a crime of obstruction of justice allegedly committed by Olmert - as appears from the recording given to investigators by Shula Zaken. "This is nonsense," they said.
