Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert begins sentence for bribery

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has begun serving a 19-month prison sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice.
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert begins sentence for bribery
Tue, 16 Feb, 2016 - 00:00

Olmert is the first Israeli prime minister to serve time in prison. TV footage showed him walking into the Maasiyahu prison in central Israel.

The 70-year-old was convicted in March 2014 in a wide-ranging case that accused him of accepting bribes to promote a controversial real-estate project in Jerusalem.

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