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}}}>Begin Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - WORLD Sharon and son facing charges over poll funds By Ross Dunn, Herald Correspondent in Jerusalem The Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Ariel Sharon, and his son Omri may face criminal charges over illegal funding of the election campaign that brought Mr Sharon to power in February. The State Attorney, Mrs Edna Arbel, the country's top prosecuting officer, has recommended that both be placed under criminal investigation, Justice Ministry officials said. The final decision is in the hands of the Attorney-General, Mr Elyakim Rubinstein, who will study the case file sent to him by the state comptroller, Mr Eliezer Goldberg. The report by Mr Goldberg contains information of about 5.9 million shekels ($2.7 million) in donations Mr Sharon received from Annex Research Inc, a fictitious overseas company run by his son Omri. Mr Sharon fully co-operated with the investigation and promised to return any funds that were raised in an inappropriate manner. But Mr Goldberg said Omri had refused to co-operate with his investigation out of fear of incriminating himself. Mr Sharon's son has become controversial, having been delegated by his father to mediate with the Palestinian leader, Mr Yasser Arafat. This has angered left-wing MPs, who have pointed out that Omri has no government position. "This report reiterates the need for full disclosure" of election funding, Mr Goldberg said. "A lot of what goes on today behind the public's back can come out in the open with the proper legislation." A political commentator, Nahum Barnea, writing in the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth, predicted that the disclosures in the report would continue to haunt Mr Sharon. "The state comptroller's report on the financing of Mr Sharon's campaign will almost certainly lead to a criminal investigation. "The investigation, like a chronic headache, will accompany Sharon and his people waking and sleeping, will poison relations between them, and will preoccupy their brains much more than the country's problems." In another article, a day earlier, Barnea highlighted other internal strife in the Government. He wrote about the strong tensions between the Foreign Minister, Mr Shimon Peres, and some of the top military commanders. Barnea said that Mr Peres believed that the deputy chief of staff of the army, Major-General Moshe Ya'alon, wanted to "physically take out Arafat". Mr Sharon is on record as saying that Israel will never attempt to assassinate Mr Arafat. Mr Peres said such a move would only leave Israel in a worse position, having to deal with a new Palestinian political leadership made up of Islamic militants who had vowed to destroy Israel. "Lets suppose we take him out. What will happen then? Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah will come instead. Arafat accepts Israel's existence, wants to speak to us, wants to be accepted in the West. They [the Islamic militant groups] will want to establish a single state between Iraq and the Mediterranean." 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