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Arranged work for associates: Former deputy mayor Nesher will be charged with fraud and breach of trust

Yechiel Edri will be prosecuted in two weeks for public corruption as part of his role in the municipality in 2013.

According to the indictment, the former acting mayor appointed election activists as his personal secretaries and ignored a tender attended by 55 people, after promising them a position during the campaign. "This is a conspiracy.

I exposed corruption and that is the result "

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Yoav Itiel

Friday, 13 November 2020, 19:14

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Yehiel Edri, former deputy and acting mayor of Nesher, will be charged with public corruption offenses he committed in 2013 as part of his job. According to the indictment, Edri arranged work for his associates and acted in a conflict of interest. Loyalty, attempt to obtain anything fraudulently under aggravated circumstances and forgery of a document and its use. The

affair began after the local elections that took place seven years ago. Elected to the position of list activist Edri La ran for the position during the campaign.When she was fired four months later, another election activist on the list, a friend of Edri's son, was brought in to fill her place, again without an examination committee and without an interview.

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Fraud and breach of trust.

Edri

According to the State Attorney's Office, the State Comptroller's team decided to come to Nesher at the end of that year and check, among other things, the appointments.

In response, Edri instructed the human resources coordinator, a distant relative of his, to prepare documents from which it would appear that a meeting had been held at the municipality before the secretary was recruited and that she had been duly elected.

Edri also instructed her to state in the document that in the second place in accordance with the position was the activist elected, and that he instructed her to appoint him to the position based on that meeting.

Even before the work on the report on the matter was completed, the State Comptroller's Office suspected a forgery and fraud and an appeal was made to the Attorney General.

The auditor's report published in 2016 already included a reference to the affair.

Following his order to the coordinator, Edri, 62, is accused of forging documents as a public servant, with the aim of misleading the comptroller's representatives.

"Make documents that are presumed to be what they are and they may be misleading, when he is in charge of making them and when he has access to them," the indictment reads.

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Correspondence between Edri and the activist

Correspondence between Edri and the activist

Adv. Tami Ullman

Edri, who still serves as a city council member on behalf of the Labor faction, denied the allegations and revolted over the filing of the indictment.

"Everything is political. This is a conspiracy. I have been serving Nesher for 43 years, all voluntarily except for those two years. I exposed corruption in the municipality following which they went to prison, so that is the result," he claimed.

"The opposition saw that I was strong in the municipality and decided to 'dress' me," he continued.

"Whoever is allowed to get workers and the law applies to him is the mayor, not me. The mayor gave the instructions on who to get and who not. I did not forge any document."

The former deputy mayor passed to Walla!

NEWS A document that he claims constitutes the minutes of the December 2013 meeting in which the activist was elected, in which the treasurer and secretary also participated.

But this document is not controversial.

The State Attorney's Office refers to another document, the one that the Personnel Coordinator instructed to prepare, and which he signed alone.

Attorney Tami Ullman representing Edri said in response that “these are old offenses.

I am surprised that the prosecution decides to file an indictment after six years.

My client suffered an irreversible injustice with the filing of the indictment.

We trust the legal process and we are sure that justice has been served. "

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