JERUSALEM, Nov 11: Some 100 Israeli police on Sunday confiscated documents at 20 public sites related to investigations into alleged misconduct by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, a spokesman said.

“One hundred officers from the department of fraud on Sunday began confiscating documents related to corruption affairs in which Olmert has been implicated,” Micky Rosenfeld said.

“Officers searched the premises of 20 sites, including the trade and industry ministry, the Jewish National Fund, the Jerusalem municipality, and some private law offices,” Rosenfeld said.

The prime minister has been besieged by corruption allegations, and is currently the subject of three police investigations.

The premier faces police probes into allegations that he abused his authority in the privatisation of a major bank in 2005 and effectively received a bribe in the cut-price purchase of a luxury Jerusalem home in 2004.

Last month, the justice ministry announced a third police investigation into Olmert over alleged political appointments while he was trade and industry minister.

Olmert has denied all the allegations.—AFP