The Tax Authority today (Monday), accompanied by police forces, raided the homes of 12 singers, most of them from the Arab sector, who are suspected of evading millions of shekels in income.
During the operation, assets were seized and money and evidence were seized linking the suspects to acts attributed to them, such as diaries and invoice books. Three of the suspected singers were arrested. Two of them, Habib Wissam and Jishi Hisham, were released on bail and another detainee, Mike Sheriff, Was released under house arrest. The investigation of all twelve continues.
During the operation, a new Audi vehicle owned by Sheriff, an Infiniti vehicle owned by Habib Wissam, was seized, and in some of the houses, cash worth tens of thousands of shekels was seized, some in local currency and some in foreign currency. According to the suspicion, for a long time the same singers hid income, in a method in which some of the income that flowed into their pockets was reported by musicians and backing singers in their band that they are engaged in, and in other methods.
The operation was preceded by intelligence activities that included mapping assets, extracting information from social networks, locating addresses and analyzing tax reports and bank reports. In their name, and all this in order to hide the scope of their economic activity.Therefore, emphasis was placed during the operation on the seizure of any document indicating the purchase of equipment, vehicles or buildings and the seizure of bank documents.