Former chairman of the Ashdod Port Workers' Committee was convicted of fraud and breach of trust • Will perform service work for six months • The State Attorney's Office demanded actual imprisonment
Hassan in court
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Dudu Greenspan - Archive
The Supreme Court accepted today (Sunday) appeal the prosecutor's office and aggravated the sentence of Alon Hassan, chairman of the Ashdod port workers formerly, six months of community service.
However after being convicted of charges of fraud and breach of trust and sentenced to a suspended sentence of three months, Along with 150 hours of service work.
Defense counsel's request to quash Hassan's conviction was denied.
Probation remains the same.
In the appeal, the prosecution argued that the sentence imposed on Hassan in the district court did not convey the message required for the fight against public corruption, and is far from constituting a deterrent punishment for the offenses committed.
Discussion of arguments in Hassan's sentence // Photo: Newsenders
The ruling stated that "we accept the state's position that in offenses of this type, when they relate to serious acts of the type in which the appellant was convicted, the appropriate punitive policy should include actual imprisonment. However, in the obligatory changes, the same is true with regard to fraud and serious breach of trust of the type in which the appellant was convicted in the previous judgment.
"In the acts in which the appellant was convicted, there are 'circumstances that are serious and require appropriate punishment that is also deterrent,' especially with regard to the status of the appellant. They require actual imprisonment, even if it is desirable in service work. "A suspended sentence only, as was done in this case by the district court, therefore deviates from Kola's policy of appropriate punishment," it read.