Word: leumi
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Olmert is not unused to being the subject of legal probes. A criminal investigation was launched earlier this year into his role in the sale of Bank Leumi when he was still finance minister. His lawyers have tied up that case with questions and motions and it has yet to proceed to an indictment. Olmert's office says that the privatization of Leumi, a state-run bank, was done according to law. As for the apartment scandal, Olmert's aides deny that any laws were broken...
...time when Swiss banks are under pressure from Jewish groups to unearth dormant accounts. A recent book by Bar-Ilan University professor Yossi Katz asserts that institutions like the Jewish National Fund, which was set up to purchase land for Jews in what was then Palestine, and Bank Leumi, one of Israel's biggest banks, failed to examine land records and abandoned accounts for Holocaust money. Last April, a Knesset committee finally pushed Israel's banks to audit these accounts...