Sharon bribery case 'to be dropped'

Israel’s attorney general is about to drop a bribery case against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Israeli TV stations reported tonight.

The case concerns a failed property deal. Businessman David Appel has been charged with bribing Sharon and one of his sons over a project to turn a Greek island into a tourism centre, but in order to convict Sharon of receiving a bribe, criminal intent would have to be proved on his part.