Tel Aviv District Attorney's Office Announces Past Soccer Player's Attorney That He May Stand Alleged After Suspecting Arnon Giladi, Senior Tel Aviv Municipality • Also Giladi, and Likud activist Yosef Raanan are likely to be prosecuted • Full details

• Haim Revivo

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  Meir Partosh

Another development in the David Bitten case: Past footballer Haim Revivo will be prosecuted under a hearing on suspicion of bribing Tel Aviv City Council member Arnon Giladi, the Tel Aviv District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday. 

In addition, a message was given to the counsel of Arnon Giladi, a member of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council, and Joseph Raanan, that they were being prosecuted, subject to a hearing, as part of the 1803 case. This message was given to Giladi later on in a previous letter sent to him on 26.1.20. Refresh suspected money laundering. 

As of November 2003, Giladi served as a member of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council, and throughout the relevant period served in senior positions in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality, including the Deputy Mayor, a member of the Executive Committee, a member of the Local Planning and Building Committee, and an Acting Chair, And a member of the Tel Aviv Planning and Construction Subcommittee.

David Bitten served from 1987 until March 2015 as a councilor in the Rishon Lezion municipality and from 2005 also served as deputy mayor. Throughout the period, Bitten was a member of the local planning and construction committee Rishon Lezion and held various other positions in the Rishon Lezion municipality, which include, inter alia, planning and construction procedures. From March 21, 2015, Bitten served as a Knesset member on behalf of the Likud Party and was a member of various Knesset committees, and from May 16, 2016 to December 20, 2017, he also served as the Coalition's Chairman. 

According to the suspicion, Bitten and Giladi have been in close relations for many years due to their joint activity in the Likud movement as well as their corresponding roles in local government. 

Fish. He is a real estate entrepreneur who, from 2017-2010, promoted a number of ventures in the Tel Aviv area. Against the backdrop of a bribery relationship established between Dag and Giladi and Lavin Bitten in 2011, as described in the hearing letter sent to Giladi on January 26, During the years 2017-2015, Giladi continued to act as part of his role, responding to the requests of Bitan and D.G., to promote real estate projects involving D.G. In the jurisdiction of the Tel Aviv Municipality, and to solve problems that arose in projects, while Giladi is in serious conflict. For his actions, Giladi's prosecution is being considered, subject to a hearing, fraudulent offense and breach of trust.

At the end of November 2017, Giladi requested funds from three different real estate developers who assisted in promoting planning procedures with professionals in the Tel Aviv municipality and planning committees. Giladi presented to those entities misrepresentation that the funds were intended to promote a nonprofit operating in southern Tel Aviv, including on the struggle of residents. Southern neighborhoods in illegal aliens This issue was part of Giladi's stated political agenda.

In practice, this association does not exist at all. Giladi asked Joseph Ra'anan, a veteran Likud activist who, between him and Giladi's close relationships for years, to liaise with the real estate developers to collect the funds on his behalf and on his behalf. Refresh the real estate projects collected Giladi's funds for a total of NIS 30,000. The funds were freshly deposited in a bank account that was opened in 2013, called "Our Tel Aviv Urban Justice." The bank account is kept secret and Giladi is not listed as its owner or beneficiary. The funds deposited in the bank account over the years were intended to serve Giladi to fund various events and activities aimed at promoting his candidacy, status and public image.

In each case, Giladi's trial, subject to a hearing, is being considered for the offense of taking a bribe. Among other things, Giladi took bribes from Haim Revivo, a businessman and owner of a real estate project in Tel Aviv, which is being considered for trial, subject to a hearing, in the offense of bribing, amounting to NIS 10,000.

According to the suspicions, the financial benefits that Giladi took in the amount of NIS 30,000 are property that is the source of the offense, as well as property prohibited by the Money Laundering Law. Giladi took the favors for financial enjoyment and in accordance with the summary between him and Raanan, they were deposited in the bank account, while Giladi and Raanan made a false representation that they were legitimate and concealed Giladi's identity as having rights in the account. For this, Giladi is being prosecuted for offenses under the Money Laundering Law. In addition, Giladi's prosecution is being considered for the offense of disrupting court proceedings.

In addition, according to the suspicions, Ra'anan opened the bank account, hiding the fact that the funds were held in the account and withdrawn from him for Giladi's benefit, giving false information about the identity of the beneficiaries in the bank account. For this, Giladi is being prosecuted for an offense under the Money Laundering Law.