Tel Aviv - Israeli police recommended Sunday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert be indicted on bribery and other charges, following two separate investigations.

The State Prosecutor's Office will still have to look into the information gathered by the police and decide whether or not to indict, a process which might take until next month.

In addition to the bribery charge, police said they found enough evidence to support charges of fraud, breach of trust and money laundering, Israeli media reported.

Olmert is accused of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars, most of it in envelopes full of cash, from US-Jewish fundraiser Morris Talansky.

He is also suspected of double, even triple, billing sponsors for overseas visits, and using the extra money to pay for trips for his family.

A third accusation, yet to be fully investigated by police, is that when serving as trade and industry minister, before he became premier, he pushed for favourable responses to be given to grant applications submitted to the ministry's investment centre by clients of his former law partner.

Olmert's aides have said that police had also recommended indicting previous prime ministers, including Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Barak, but in each case their recommendation was not followed up. (dpa)