(USA Today) - State Attorney Edna Arbel recommended Sunday that charges be brought against Prime Minister Sharon in the so-called Greek Island affair. The prime minister denies the charges. The inquiry involves charges that Israeli businessman David Appel paid one of the prime minister's sons $700,000 in the late '90s to serve as a consultant in the construction of a resort in Greece and the rezoning of land in Tel Aviv in hopes that his father, then foreign minister, would lobby Athens for approval to build the resort. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz now has to decide whether to bring an indictment.
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