Ashkelon resident is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of shekels from blind Holocaust survivors

According to the indictment, the 47-year-old stole an estimated NIS 600,000 from the 83-year-old when she was employed at his home. The city resident had access to the Holocaust survivor's credit card as she assisted him with financial matters

Hundreds of thousands of shekels from blind Holocaust survivors (Photo: AP)

Holocaust survivor with number on hand (Photo: AP)

The Southern District Attorney's Office filed an indictment on Wednesday in Beer Sheva Magistrate's Court against Anat Dayan, a 47-year-old Ashkelon resident who stole more than NIS 600,000 from an 83-year-old blind Holocaust survivor while employed at his home.

According to the indictment, filed by Attorney Giora Hazan, for a period of about three years, the defendant worked in the elder's home as a part-time assistant and was to assist him with financial matters such as paying for a nanny, grocery shopping, reading documents and more. The resident of the city had full access to the credit card Of the elderly man and since he is blind, he gave the defendant the secret code so that he would withdraw cash amounts of money for him.

The indictment indicates that the woman used the Holocaust credit card and by withdrawing cash and using sacks, she stole a total of NIS 623,100 from his bank account. The 47-year-old is accused of using the money she stole in clothing stores, various supermarkets, a pet care store and more.

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Realizing that her actions might be revealed, the woman tried to balance the elderly man's accounts, especially the diminishing credit account, by depositing cash from various sources, as well as transferring the accounts. As part of this, the defendant stole a satchel from the complainant, forged the sacks by filling in their details and signed the signature to appear as his signature, handed the checks to various businesses, and received merchandise or money.

In November of this year her actions were discovered by the elderly son, and her work was stopped. The case was investigated by the Southern Police Fraud Unit and the indictment attributes to her the commission of theft by an employee, receiving fraudulently under aggravated circumstances, forgery under aggravated circumstances and the use of a forged document. At the same time, the prosecutor's office filed a motion to arrest the defendant until the legal proceedings against her were completed.

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