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FORMER prime minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to eight months in prison yesterday for unlawfully accepting money from a US supporter.
He was convicted in March in a retrial in Jerusalem district court and his eight-month sentence is in addition to a six-year custodial term handed down last year in a separate bribery conviction.
His lawyer Eyal Rozovsky said that Mr Olmert’s legal team was “very disappointed” and would appeal to the supreme court.
They were granted a 45-day stay of execution, meaning that the former leader will avoid incarceration for now.
He was given a suspended sentence of an additional eight months and fined £16,000.
A slew of character witnesses had vouched for Mr Olmert, including British former prime minister Tony Blair and former Mossad spy chief Meir Dagan.
His US supporter Morris Talansky said that Mr Olmert had splashed out on expensive cigars, first-class travel and luxury hotels, insisting that he received nothing in return.
