Israeli police questioned caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Friday over suspicions that he made "political appointments" when he was trade and industry minister in 2005, dpa reported.
Police said they probed the premier for some two hours and 30 minutes at his Jerusalem residence, the 11th such session in recent months.
Olmert, who resigned in late September amid corruption charges, has been questioned over six different cases, including the "political appointments."
In that affair, he is suspected of having used his influence as trade and industry minister to appoint cronies from his former Likud party to senior posts in various state bodies, including the Israel Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises.
Israel's attorney-general announced late last month that he recommended Olmert be indicted over another affair, in which he allegedly committed "systematic fraud" by regularly multiple-billing travel expenses when he served in public office in the years before he was elected premier in March 2006.
While state prosecutors decided earlier this month to close one of the cases, involving the privatization sale of Israel's Bank Leumi, police investigations into a number of others are ongoing.
Although critics have called on him to take a vacation until early elections are held in Israel on February 10, Olmert has vowed to continue to rule the country at the head of a transitional government until a new one is formed after the poll. That could be until late March.