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Released: 04/18/10, 8:35 PM / Last Update: 04/19/10, 7:55 AM Demand: Put a Stop to Holyland  
by Maayana Miskin Follow Israel news on and .

Legal expert Professor Michael Corinaldi and the government watchdog group Ometz have called to halt the Holyland construction project in Jerusalem. While much of the project has been completed, four 32- tale towers have not yet been built.

In a lecture at the Netanya Academic College, Corinaldi stated construction should be stopped due to allegations of corruption and bribery. Investors in Holyland allegedly bribed previous Jerusalem Mayor and former Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert and other senior municipal officials. Some of the latter are jailed or under house arrest.

In return, the municipality allegedly granted unique permits for the project. For example, the high rise project, atop a hill overlooking southern Jerusalem, was initially to include 180 apartments, yet is now set to include approximately 1,000 apartments.

Ometz has turned to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, State Prosecutor Moshe Lador, Internal Affairs Minister Eli Yishai, and State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss with a request to freeze building.

Police recently discovered that replace with documents giving municipal approval to the Holyland project are missing. The disappearance of the files, which allegedly prove that the city architect disapproved of the project, and endorsed it with the additional words "under duress" may indicate that senior municipal officials were tipped off to the undercover police investigation that began in 2008.

  (IsraelNationalNews.com)

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