Following information received from an external accountant appointed by the Ministry of the Interior to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the conduct of the Tuba Zangaria Council, with an emphasis on the salaries of the council's employees, an investigation was opened into the matter and thus they subsequently came to the serious affair in which a former senior employee of the council was suspected.
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Following the investigation by the Northern District Police, from the North Fraud Division in collaboration with the Haifa Investigative Assessor at the Tax Authority, a suspicion arose of committing offenses under the Law on the Prohibition of Money Laundering and offenses under the Revenue Ordinance. The investigation shows that as part of the suspect's duties, he fraudulently withdrew funds from the council every month, By inflating the monthly salary that the bank must transfer to his account, while in the payroll report the real salary is recorded.
It also emerged from the investigation that the suspect included fictitious employees in the list of wage earners, who were mostly members of his family, while the bank was given a monthly instruction to transfer his salary plus the amount of the fictitious employees' salaries to the suspect's account.
It turns out that between the years 2016-2021, the suspect stole over a million and a half NIS in this way.
He inflated his personal salary and reported on effective employees, photo: Eyal Margolin - Gini
This week the investigation became public when the suspect and his family members were detained for questioning, and his home and council offices were searched.
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