Former Israeli premier Ehud Olmert was released from prison early Sunday a few days after a parole panel granted him early release from his 27-month corruption sentence.
A spokesman for the Israeli prison service said Olmert 71 was whisked away by Israel’s security service after his release and driven home after serving 16 months.
He said the terms of Olmert’s early release stipulate that for the next few months he has to do volunteer work must appear before the police twice a month and cannot give interviews to the media or leave the country.
He added that president Reuven Rivlin could relieve him of the parole restrictions.
Olmert was convicted in 2014 in a wide-ranging case that accused him of accepting bribes to promote a real-estate project in Jerusalem and obstructing justice. The charges pertained to a period when he was mayor of Jerusalem and trade minister before he became premier in 2006.
