Report: Minister of Justice signed Dankner's pardon request

According to news release 13, Ohana has signed the application that is currently being filed with the president of the state to pardon the businessman who is serving a prison sentence in a share run case. Earlier this week, he was transferred from the Ma'asiyahu Prison to the Nitzan Detention Center, according to a senior law enforcement official "for a specific purpose, he is not threatened"

Report: Minister of Justice signed Dankner's pardon request

Justice Minister Amir Ohana signed a pardon application filed by businessman Nochi Dankner, who is serving a prison sentence for a securities fraud - this was published on Friday (News).

Dankner from the Ma'asiyahu Prison was transferred to the Nitzan Detention Center this week, which serves as a place for detention, including prisoners serving their sentences, and is transferred there for police investigations into alleged crimes committed while in prison. According to a report, his request for early release was frozen because of a particular incident that occurred in prison. A senior law enforcement official told Walla! NEWS that Dankner was transferred to the detention center "for a specific purpose and is not threatened."

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According to the report, the Minister of Justice has signed the request to pardon him. Dankner (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Nochi Danker enters Ma'asiyahu Prison October 2, 2018 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Dankner was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of securities fraud in the "running" IDB shares. In addition, the capital market man with me Strum was sentenced to two years in prison under the affair. The two were sentenced by the Supreme Court in August 2018 after they appealed the sentence sentenced by the Tel Aviv District Court two years earlier. On the other hand, the State Attorney's Office appealed and sought to impose a more severe sentence on them - and this was accepted, in the decision of Justices David Mintz, Neil Handel and George Read.

The ruling deals with the issuance of IDB shares in February 2012. Dankner and Strom acted so that Strum purchased through his company, ISP, a large amount of the shares offered to the public. This created an artificial demand that affected the share price. The company was able to raise NIS 321 million on the same offering, of which 62 million were purchased by controlling shareholders or stakeholders.

On October 2, Dankner began serving the prison sentence at Ma'asiyahu Prison in the VIP Wing - Division 10 - which he inaugurated years ago, his cousin, Danny Dankner, who served a prison sentence with Ehud Olmert. Division 10, now known as Division 4, has contained quite a few famous prisoners over the years, including former Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, singer Kobe Peretz and the convicts of the Holyland affair. At the same time, there are also a number of ordinary prisoners, usually prisoners convicted of traffic accidents or fraud.

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