Olmert: Ehud Barak pocketed millions in bribes from arms sales
Channel 10 airs tapes in which former PM is heard telling his aide that Barak hid the money overseas. Barak's office: Claims are unfounded. ● Israel's Channel 10 revealed audio tapes on Friday in which former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is heard accusing former Prime Minister Ehud Barak of profiting for arms sales and hiding money in offshore accounts. The conversation – part of the tapes recorded by Olmert's former aide Shula Zaken – took place on July 2011. Olmert and Zaken were talking about the "Rishon Tours" affair – in which Olmert was suspected of illegally double-billing charities for the same flights booked – at which point Olmert began to speak about Barak's lavish lifestyle. He told Zaken how envious Barak was of Olmert's Audi A8. "But he'll end up in jail," Olmert says, "remember what I'm telling you Shula." [...] There is no evidence backing the claims made in the recording, and it should be noted that the relationship between Olmert and Barak has been notoriously sour...