The Tel Aviv District Court today (Sunday) sentenced Ziv Zoran, a former computer programmer at BDI Kopas, to two years in prison, nine months probation and a fine of NIS 21,000, for committing multiple offenses of fraud and breach of trust in the corporation, forgery Intentionally getting anything, invasion of privacy, computer intrusion offenses and other offenses. This, after Zoran confessed and was convicted as part of a plea deal during the management of the evidence in the case.
The sentence is the latest in a case called “smooth page”, which deals with a criminal network that was woven to carry out credit write-offs for a fee and at its center is Zoran, and it joins the sentences of six other defendants in the case, which have long been handed down. Zoran worked for BDI, which was allowed to receive and collect data on citizens regarding non-payment of debts, bankruptcies and uncovered checks, and to transfer this information, among other things, to various institutions.
According to the indictment, Zoran infiltrated the company’s computerized databases, and made prohibited erasures of citizens’ negative credit data from their credit reports. For some of the deletions he made, he received a payment of NIS 21,000 from another defendant in the case. Following Zoran’s actions, and based on the false credit reports, banks and other financial institutions granted loans amounting to hundreds of thousands of shekels to entities whose negative data were deleted.
In addition, according to the indictment, Zoran passed on to another defendant in the case, who owned a loan consulting and brokerage company, about 500 records of business information from another company database, which included data on refusals to grant loans to citizens, severely infringing on their privacy. This is so that the additional defendant will use the information for his commercial needs and to locate potential customers. The two concluded that to the extent that this information yielded business results, Zoran would receive a commission for transmitting the information. As part of the plea agreement, Zoran admitted the facts of the amended indictment in his case and it was agreed that the parties would freely argue for punishment. In the sentence, the court ruled that the defendant is “the perpetrator of the crime in this case, who committed the offenses with his own hands, he is the sinner and he is the sinner and all while taking advantage of his access to the databases.”
The court accepted the prosecution’s position that the defendant had an increased obligation to his employers not to utilize the technical knowledge he had to make negative use of the unique and sensitive databases that were in the company; And did not really find in the defense counsel’s position that the sentence should be mitigated because he was a junior employee. In addition, the court considered the potential damage that might have been caused to the banking system as a result of its actions. The case was investigated by the Privacy Protection Authority of the Ministry of Justice and the Lahav 433 of the Israel Police.
The Privacy Protection Authority said: “Although the programmer has made many efforts to conceal his actions, including falsifying credit data reports, the Authority’s investigation has led to the acquisition of unequivocal evidence in the case. For databases that include personal information. “
The Tax and Economics Prosecutor’s Office said: “The court’s rulings on the seriousness of the defendant’s actions and the protected values he violated in committing the offenses are of real importance and send a deterrent message that an employee of a corporation should not abuse the trust given to him.”
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