Pines-Paz wrote a letter to Mazuz, asking if Olmert had reported his relationship with Ya'ari when he appointed him to the commission, or perhaps "tried to plant a senior associate in the commission."
Channel 10 exposed a document containing 115 names of Likud Central Committee members and activists whom the prime minister allegedly helped illegally when he served as industry, trade and labor minister.
Olmert intervened in the tender for the privatization of Bank Leumi on behalf of two personal friends with whom he also had business connections, American businessman Daniel Abraham and Australian businessman Frank Lowy