Israel's Former Prime Minister Olmert to go to Jail for 18 months

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Israel's Former Prime Minister Olmert to go to Jail for 18 months
By Ofira Koopmans / DPA

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert looks on at the Jerusalem District Court, in Jerusalem, 25 May 2015. Photo: Heidi Levine / EPA

JERUSALEM -- Ehud Olmert will become the first former Israeli Prime Minister to go to jail after Israel's Supreme Court upheld one count of bribe-taking in a appeal ruling on Tuesday.


The court in Jerusalem acquitted Olmert of one major count of bribe-taking when he served as mayor of the city between 1993 and 2003, Israel Radio reported.

But it upheld a conviction for a lesser count and dramatically reduced a prison sentence handed to Olmert in May 2014 by Tel Aviv's District Court from six years to 18 months.

Olmert is expected to start his sentence on Feb. 15.

The Tel Aviv court had said in its verdict that two counts of indirect bribe-taking had not passed the statute of limitations and were sufficiently proven.

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