The Supreme Court of Israel on December 29, 2015 reduced former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert’s prison sentence from six years to 18 months after overturning the main bribery charge against him.
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The 70-year-old, who was prime minister from 2006 to 2009, was sentenced in May 2014 to six years in prison on two separate charges of taking bribes.
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The verdict stems from a sprawling corruption and will make Olmert Israel’s first prime minister to go to jail.
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January 2006 Olmert becomes acting prime minister after Sharon suffers stroke.
Olmert has consistently denied any wrongdoing and has fought his conviction all the way up to the Israeli Supreme Court.
The court struck down one bribery conviction for Olmert’s part in the so-called Holyland scandal, but upheld another.
The former Jerusalem mayor also suffers from ill health.
According to other media reports, following the verdict, Olmert gave a statement to the press saying he had never accepted any bribes and fully respected the decision of the justices to partially uphold his conviction.
Olmert is facing an additional eight-month prison sentence in the so-called Talansky affair.
(Olmert) “A large stone has been lifted from my heart…”
The Supreme Court announced that Olmert will begin serving his sentence on February 15. Had he been convicted of both he would have spent six years in prison.
“I told him, ‘Remember my words, it will be 50 years before there will be another Israeli prime minister that will offer you what I am offering you now”. Shalom, ranked sixth in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, previously served in a variety of government positions and had been involved in politics for more than 20 years.
Olmert said he was “satisfied” about his partial exoneration.
“Olmert has been acquitted of the felony of taking a bribe of 500,000 shekels ($128,500)”, the decision read, but “unanimously convicted of the felony of taking a bribe of 60,000 shekels ($15,000)”.
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It marked a stark departure from the harsh 2014 Tel Aviv District Court ruling, where Judge David Rozen accused Olmert of undermining the public’s trust and called him a “traitor”.
