By YAAKOV LAPPIN
23/08/2010
Former PM, several others likely to be charged in Holyland affair.

Police announced on Monday the conclusion of the Holyland real estate bribery investigation, and have recommended that Tel Aviv state prosecutors indict former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for receiving bribes to promote the property development in Jerusalem's Malcha neighborhood.

Police suspect that during his term as Jerusalem mayor between 1993 and 2003, and later as minister of trade, industry and labor between 2003 and 2006, Olmert received over a million shekels in bribes from businessmen backing the Holyland development in exchange for which, police suspect, he worked to ensure that an enlarged construction plan for the site received approval and backing.