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Suspicion: A contractor from the north made an elderly woman worth hundreds of thousands of shekels | Israel Hayom

11/29/2023, 9:59:34 AM

Highlights: Police from the Tel Aviv District Fraud Unit arrested a renovation contractor from the north earlier this week on suspicion of exploiting an 81-year-old woman. The court released him to house arrest for a week, his defense attorney claims that this is a "civil dispute" and not a criminal act. The cumulative sum he stole is NIS 750,<> The investigation is underway in theTel Aviv District Police's fraud division following a complaint by the woman from Holon, which indicates that a man began a "journey" of oppression and deceit towards her.


A renovation contractor from the north was arrested in recent days on suspicion of exploiting and deceiving an elderly woman over 80 years old from Holon • The cumulative sum he stole is NIS 750,<> • He was released to house arrest for a week, his defense attorney claims that this is a "civil dispute" and not a criminal act

Police from the Tel Aviv District Fraud Unit arrested a renovation contractor from the north earlier this week on suspicion of exploiting an 81-year-old woman from Holon for NIS 750,000. The court released him to house arrest for a week.

An investigation is underway in the Tel Aviv District Police's fraud division following a complaint by an 81-year-old woman from Holon, which indicates that a man who carried out renovation work in her home began a "journey" of oppression and deceit towards her, when he scattered many checks from her account and even gambled tens of thousands of shekels, purchased many products and more, all out of the funds he received. Allegedly, fraudulently. This is about NIS 750,000.

Upon receiving the complaint, the investigators collected testimonies, collected various documents and managed to identify the suspect. Yesterday, detectives from the Tel Aviv District Fraud Unit arrested the suspect, a 49-year-old resident of Afula, and he was taken for interrogation.

On Tuesday, the suspect was brought to a hearing to extend his detention at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, where the defense argued that this was a civil dispute and not a criminal one, the judge ruled that there was reasonable suspicion that the acts had been committed, but at a low threshold, and released the suspect on bail and to house arrest for seven days.

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