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| Israel's ex-PM Ehud Olmert convicted of bribery | |
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| Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been found guilty in a bribery trial in a case which forced him to resign to office in 2008. | |
| Olmert was convicted in what is known as the "Holyland affair" in which bribes were paid and received to speed up a luxury property development. | |
| He has already been cleared in several other corruption trials. | |
| The 68-year-old former Kadima party leader had denied wrongdoing and had hinted at a political comeback. | |
| Delivering the verdict in Tel Aviv on Monday, Judge David Rozen said the case "exposed governance that grew more corrupt and rotten over the years", with bribes paid to public officials," the Associated Press news agency reported. | |
| Olmert succeeded Ariel Sharon as Prime Minister after the latter had a stroke in January 2006. He was mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. | |
| In 2012 Olmert was cleared of two major corruption charges but convicted of illegally granting favours to a business friend during his time as trade and industry minister under Mr Sharon. |