Police arrest five residents of a castle in the triangle on suspicion of fraudulent investment houses and tax offenses amounting to millions of shekels | According to the suspicion, the suspects managed to forge tax exemption certificates from the Tax Authority and thus managed to withdraw millions of NIS for their clients from pension funds and study funds from investment houses without paying taxes.
Shi Klein 21.03.2022
This morning (Monday) police from the Hof District Fraud Division arrested with the help of police officers from the Hof and Central Districts as well as Border Police fighters, five suspects on suspicion of fraudulent spending, money laundering, income omission under the Income Tax Ordinance and forgeries – each according to his share of offenses The aforesaid. During a search of their home, police seized computers and other equipment.
According to the suspicion, the suspects managed to forge tax exemption certificates from the Tax Authority and thus managed to spend millions of NIS for their clients from pension funds and study funds from investment houses without paying taxes.
The investigation also revealed that the main suspects stole some of the funds’ money, slipped it into their pockets and also transferred the money to other accounts in order to obscure their tracks.
The Hof District Fraud Division, together with the Haifa and North Tax Authority’s Assessing Officer, conducted an investigation into the case last year, in which dozens of testimonies were collected from customers for whom redemptions were made and from Tax Authority employees who testified that the documents used by the suspects were forged.
Later in the day and in accordance with the needs of the investigation, some of the detainees will be brought to the Magistrate’s Court in Acre for a hearing on the request for an extension of their detention.
The investigation continues.