The Tel Aviv District Attorney's Office recently filed an indictment in the city Magistrate's Court against Reuven Oved (38), for receiving anything by fraud and theft, after on several occasions he drove taxis around the country without paying for it and fraudulently received various sums of money from drivers.
The indictment filed by Advocate Inbar Goldstoff states that on several occasions, the defendant boarded a taxi while asking the drivers to drive him to destinations at different distances. In some of the trips, he even took cash from the drivers in amounts ranging from hundreds to thousands of shekels.
Among other things, the indictment states that the defendant got into a taxi in Tel Aviv and asked the driver to drive him to his home in Givat Shmuel and make a number of stops on the way, for 120 NIS per hour. He falsely claims that he will return the money together with the payment for the trip.
After about ten hours in a taxi, the defendant asked the complainant to make a stop at a gas station in Ramat Gan, at which point, the defendant took a mobile phone from the complainant without his consent and left the taxi, falsely claiming he would return in a few minutes.
The complainant waited for the defendant at the gas station for about an hour, but the defendant did not return to the taxi.
In another case, the defendant got into a taxi during the trip, the defendant felt bad and the complainant got out of the vehicle to buy him a bottle of water.
When the two reached the destination the accused asked the complainant to stop him at a bus stop while promising to return within a few minutes but did not return to the taxi.
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