Police to question Olmert for ninth time on Friday

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Investigators from the National Fraud and Investigations Unit will question Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the ninth time on Friday, at his residence in Jerusalem. The session is expected to take approximately two hours. The prime minister is currently being investigated on six different cases of suspected fraud. He announced in August that he would step down after his replacement was elected in the then-upcoming Kadima primaries, however as new Kadima chair Tzipi Livni failed to put together a coalition, he will remain caretaker leaders of the government until general elections in February.