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Hundreds of companies have taken over: dozens of suspects in tax offenses and money laundering

The investigation reveals that 30 people took part in an organized network that managed to deceive the registrar of companies through affidavits and forged documents, in a fraud amounting to hundreds of millions of shekels.

According to the suspicion, some of those involved owned gas stations that provided a mixed product in violation of the law.

Tax Authority: "Did not get sick by any means"

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Maya Horodnitsano

Monday, 07 September 2020, 12:11

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30 people were arrested or detained for questioning this morning (Monday) on suspicion of their involvement in taxation and money laundering offenses amounting to hundreds of millions of shekels.

During the investigation it was revealed that those involved took part in an organized network through which they managed to outwit the mechanisms of the Registrar of Companies through false affidavits and submission of forged documents, and seized ownership of hundreds to thousands of different companies across the country in energy and fuels.

For the past six months, the Fraud Division and the Economic Unit of the Central Unit of the Jerusalem Police, in cooperation with the Tax Authority, the Registrar of Companies in the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Energy, have conducted an undercover investigation following the suspicions.

This morning, the investigation became public, as the police raided the homes and businesses of the suspects with the authorities and froze real estate, luxury vehicles and bank accounts.

Police are working to locate other companies that fell victim to the scam, and called on company owners across the country to investigate the matter. The need.

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According to the suspicion, those involved managed to outwit the mechanisms of the Registrar of Companies while submitting false affidavits and forged documents, in order to take declaratory ownership of hundreds and possibly thousands of different companies across the country and register them in their name.

They also allegedly used documents proving their ownership in the companies, in order to open bank accounts and obtain credit in a manner parallel to the company's original accounts.

Subsequently, the suspects issued fictitious invoices on behalf of the company while making transactions valued at hundreds of millions of shekels, and in this way the suspects also defrauded the authorities and pocketed millions of shekels

during the investigation.

In addition, it emerged that some of the fuels traded by the suspects and supplied to the public were found to be mixed with additional substances in violation of the law.

As a result, suspicion arose that the vehicles of hundreds of civilians had been damaged.

Properties were frozen during a raid on the suspects' homes and businesses (Photo: Reuven Castro)

"According to the suspicion, this is a serious affair according to which criminal elements teamed up with freelancers, including lawyers and accountants, and committed offenses of offsetting and distributing fictitious tax invoices in violation of the VAT Law and the Income Tax Ordinance, as well as violations of the Anti-Money Laundering Law in the industry." Diesel and fuels, "the tax authority said." According to the suspicion, the perpetrators stole legitimate companies and used the legitimate legal entity without the knowledge of the company owners, issuing fictitious tax invoices and inserting them into their own books.

The suspects did not resort to any means and prepared fictitious documentation and even used it to launder the funds received as a result of the prohibited fruit of the offenses they committed. "The

Ministry of Energy responded that" In them there is a suspicion of mixing and dilutions.

The Fuel and Gas Administration at the Ministry of Energy will continue to carry out controls at all gas stations in Israel so that Israeli citizens will enjoy standard fuel that meets the highest standards. "

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