JERUSALEM, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Attorney
General Menachem Mazuz said Wednesday that he is considering indicting Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert over a double-billing affair, local media reported.
The attorney general also told Olmert's lawyer that
the prime minister was welcome to call for a hearing before a final decision on
the matter, according to the website of local daily Ha'aretz.
In the double-billing affair, which is also known as
the RishonTours affair, named after the travel agency, Olmert was alleged for
paying for both of his own and his family's private flights by money obtained
fraudulently from public bodies when serving as Jerusalem mayor and then as
industry, trade and labor minister from 2003 to 2006.
Olmert might face the charges of fraud, breach of
trust, falsifying corporate records, failure to report an income and receiving
illegal benefits, to which an aggravated circumstances clause applies.
The final decision on whether or not to file criminal
charges against the prime minister is subject to an Attorney General's Office
judicial hearing. The hearing will allow Olmert's attorneys to present Mazuz
with exculpatory evidence.