For the first time in Israel's history, a
Court today sentenced
former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to six years in prison for corrupt practices
in a real estate project.
He was also fined 3 lakh US dollars by a Tel Aviv
Court for his role in the Holyland project. Judge David Rosen had convicted
68-year-old Olmert of two charges of bribery. The Court said, Olmert accepted 1
lakh, 60 thousand dollars from developers of the Holyland project in Jerusalem
at the time when he served as the capital's Mayor.
Olmert in 1973 became the youngest person ever
elected to Israel's Parliament and served as Prime Minister from 2006 to 2009.
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