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Posted 4:05 pm EDT
JERUSALEM, May 8, 2008 (Reuters) — Prosecutors are investigating whether Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took "significant sums" in illegal payments from one or more foreigners, police said on Thursday in a move likely to raise pressure on Olmert to resign and upset peace talks with the Palestinians.
A judicial source told Reuters that Olmert was suspected of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars before he became prime minister in 2006. A police spokesman, lifting a media gag order, named New York financier Morris Talansky as a key witness.
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