Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert returned this morning (Tuesday) to the interrogation room of the National Fraud Investigation Unit, where he was questioned on suspicion of committing offenses of obstruction of justice and subversion during an investigation and testimony.<\/p>\r\n
At the same time, his former lawyer, Navot Tel Tzur, was also questioned under caution, who apparently tried to dissuade Shula Zaken, Olmert's former chief of staff, from agreeing to a plea bargain.<\/p>\r\n
Yesterday, Olmert was questioned at the offices of the National Fraud Investigation Unit for eight hours. Olmert was questioned with a warning in connection with the Holyland, Rashontours and Talansky envelopes cases.<\/p>\r\n
Olmert was summoned for questioning following Shula Zaken's testimony. Zaken has recordings of the conversations the two had, and the police are expected to confront Olmert with the recordings.<\/p>\r\n
Meanwhile, the prosecution announced, in accordance with the plea bargain agreement it signed with Zaken, that it is withdrawing the appeal it filed following Zaken's sentence in the Rashontours case, and from the request to significantly increase her sentence.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former prime minister was questioned again on suspicion of committing offenses of obstruction of justice and impeachment during an investigation and testimony, at the offices of the National Fraud Investigations Unit \u2022 Yesterday he was questioned for 8 hours","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[293,294,295,602,77],"class_list":["post-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-24","tag-293","tag-294","tag-295","tag-602","tag-77"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n