Tel Aviv - Israeli police officials were holding a crucial meeting Sunday to decide whether to recommend that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert be indicted for alleged corruption.

The meeting comes after detectives from the national fraud squad spent months investigating Olmert, including questioning him seven times.

Israeli media reported that the police recommendation will centre around three of the affairs in which Olmert is implicated.

He is accused of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars, most of it via 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 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.

The police recommendations will be forwarded to Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz, who will have the final decision on whether Olmert should be charged.

The premier has denied any wrongdoing. (dpa)