The prosecutor's office ordered police to launch a criminal investigation into Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's purchase of a Jerusalem home well below market value

has already investigated allegations that Olmert bought the house from a Jerusalem developer in the upscale German Colony neighborhood at $325,000 under market value, raising suspicions of fraud and bribery

If Olmert is indicted, he would have to resign

the second criminal investigation launched against Olmert

earlier inquiry concerned suspicions that Olmert, as finance minister in 2005, tried to influence the sale of the government's controlling interest in the country's second-largest bank, Bank Leumi, to favor two associates

accused Olmert of using his influence to steer a government grant to a colleague in 2001, when he was trade minister

state comptroller

Lindenstrauss has recommended that Attorney General Meni Mazuz open a criminal investigation

dogged by corruption allegations