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The candidate for the head of the Bar Association, Eyal Basarglik, continues to get into trouble. Today (Thursday) he announced that he will return to the widow of Yuri Volkov, who was murdered at the Hatza crossing in Holon, part of the amount he collected from her, after the criticism he received. Following the publication of the amount he collected, which is about NIS 600,000 , Attorney Eran Golan, Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Tel Aviv District, initiated investigation procedures - but it turns out that Sargalik had already been convicted by his confession of other ethics offenses, only about a week ago
. And in return for the representation, he asked her for a fee of NIS 80,000, which was transferred from the victim's pension funds. Later, the victim decided that she would like to change the legal representation, because she was not satisfied with the handling of the case by Attorney Basraglik - but he demanded that she pay the full fee.
Convicted of ethics violations.
In Sergalik (photo: official website, Liat Mendel)
The victim had already paid him an amount of approximately NIS 23,000, when she asked to change representation and get the legal documents back.
Attorney Basraglik refused to return the documents to the complainant, and asked her to pay the full fee. This, despite the fact that she paid more than a quarter of the amount and asked to change representation.
For nearly a year and a half, Basraglik delayed the documents and all the appeals of the victim of the crime did not help. She is sorry , the victim turned to the Ethics Committee in the Tel Aviv District of the Bar Association. If what has been told so far is not enough, Attorney Besargalik sued the victim for NIS 200,000 in compensation, including NIS 60,000 due to mental anguish and the loss of his time for filing a complaint with the Ethics Committee , this at the same time that the disciplinary procedure becomes clear.
Following this lawsuit, the victim of the offense was admitted to a psychiatric hospital and experienced a mental breakdown.
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"The lawyers deserve that the bar and its head act with clean hands."
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Finally, according to his confession, the lawyer was convicted of the crime of breach of fiduciary duty and delivery to the client and the crime of withholding documents.
He returned the material to the complainant and repeated it in the statement of claim he filed against the complainant.
His punishment has not yet been decided, but the Ethics Committee requests that he be sentenced to a conditional suspension from membership in the Chamber, and that he be fined and pay adequate compensation to the victim of the offense.
Adv. Basraglik announced not long ago that he intends to run for the position of head of the Bar Association, and even claimed that the publication of the fees he demanded was intended to damage his candidacy. Last Monday, following the publication of the investigation into Adv. Avi Himi, he tweeted that "the lawyers deserve That the chamber and its leader act with cleanliness. A chamber that brings respect to its members. Not what we have seen from Hami and his gang in recent years."
On behalf of a lawyer in Sargalik, it was stated, "We reject with disgust what is said in the article.
All of the complainant's complaints were rejected by the committee with the exception of a technical document delay due to the fact that her lawyer did not respond to a letter of reply on behalf of Advocate Besarglik and then he falsely stated that no reply had been received. After that the complainant began to attack the ethics committee and some of her witnesses. Of course we have no connection to the client's hospitalization and any other statement is slander.
"It is interesting that surprisingly after about 20 years in which a lawyer in Sargalik represents the most complex and sensitive public cases in the country with a high public profile suddenly there is a missing hand that leaks details to the media against a lawyer in the office who wants to correct and burn The same norm is invalid in the bureau. These are confidential details when the attorney in Sargalik did not present details that violate the complainant's privacy that refute any claim."
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