Getting involved again. The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office announced today (Monday) that it has filed an indictment in the Magistrate’s Court against former footballer Reuven Oved, for receiving anything by fraud and theft. Who paid for it and fraudulently received various sums of money from the drivers.
An employee, the indictment said, got into a taxi while asking the drivers to drive him to destinations at different distances. Each time, he falsely claimed to the driver that he would pay for his ride when they got to the address, even though he did not intend to pay him. On some trips, he even took cash from the drivers in amounts ranging from hundreds to thousands of shekels.
Among other things, the indictment states that an employee boarded a taxi in Tel Aviv and asked the driver to drive him to his home in Givat Shmuel and make a number of stops along the way, at a cost of NIS 120 per hour. An employee claimed that he would pay for the trip when they reached the destination, when during the trip he even asked the driver for NIS 2,200, while claiming that he would return the money together with the payment for the trip. After about ten hours in a taxi, an employee asked the driver to make a stop At a gas station in Ramat Gan, where he picked up a cell phone without his consent, left the taxi and did not return.
In another case, an employee got into a taxi and during the trip felt unwell, the driver got out of the car to buy him a bottle of water and he used the time to steal about NIS 320 from a cash register that was next to the driver’s seat – after the driver lent him NIS 200. Reply at the time of payment for the trip. When the two reached the destination, an employee asked the driver to stop him at a bus stop, promised to return within minutes and disappeared.
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