Suspects of stealing from the company and defrauding investors:
The Securities Authority opened an investigation against officers of the non-banking credit company "Shihif Ahezkot Ltd", on suspicion of the offenses of receiving something fraudulently under aggravated circumstances, offenses of fraud and violation of training and offenses of money laundering.
The main suspects in the case are Ran Kairi who served as the company's CEO until March 2022, Yoram Eliav who served as the branch manager and Julie Shama who served as the company's compliance officer and legal advisor from October 2021 to June 2022 - the sister of the mayor of Ramat Gan, Carmel Shama Cohen. This is the investigation A second held by the Securities Authority in recent months in non-bank credit companies.
According to the suspicion, the employees withdrew millions of shekels from the company and defrauded the investors (for illustration), photo: Getty Images
Those involved are suspected of fraudulently withdrawing funds totaling millions of shekels from the public company, and transferring them to the private pocket of the Mazra branch manager and his related parties.
According to the suspicion, those involved acted fraudulently while hiding their activities from the company and the investing public and caused misleading details to be presented in the company's reports and regarding material transactions carried out by the company in which funds from the public company were illegally spent and without the required approvals.
In light of the fear of disrupting the investigation and coordinating versions, the three suspects were released under restrictive conditions.
A warrant was issued against them to delay leaving the country for 180 days and they were required to post a bank guarantee in the amount of hundreds of thousands of shekels.
The company's employees were arrested on suspicion of defrauding millions and released under restrictive conditions (for illustration), photo: GettyImage
In the appendix to the request for release under restrictive conditions, it is stated that "Due to the seriousness of the offenses and the severe sanction established for them, in this case there is a real fear of disrupting investigative procedures, as well as a real fear of escaping the threat of justice. Therefore, we will ask the court to release the suspects under restrictive conditions."
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