(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) The central court in Jerusalem on Monday sentenced former premier Ehud Olmert to eight months in prison for corruption, Israel radio reported.
The radio said the verdict was issued in the "Talansky case," alluding to charges that Olmert had received bribes from the US Jewish businessman, Moshe Talansky, and that he had kept the money illicitly.
The court ordered that Olmert also pay a fine of 100,000 shekels (one USD equals 3.5 shekels), the radio said indicating that his lawyers planned to appeal the sentence.
Olmert had been sentenced to six years behind bars and a one million shekels fine in another case, in addition to being charged with receiving bribery in a real-estate venture.
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