An indictment was filed in the Tel Aviv District Court against Uri Luzon, David Biran and Ilan Chai, among other things, for receiving anything fraudulently under aggravated circumstances, conspiracy to commit a crime, money laundering offenses and tax offenses.
This is after they fraudulently received the operation of the buffets at the Sami Ofer Stadium in Haifa and also fraudulently received a significant portion of the buffet revenues.
This indictment joins an indictment filed (last week), as part of a plea bargain, in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court against Doron Lahav, for receiving anything fraudulently, conspiracy to commit a crime and obstruction of justice.
According to the indictments filed by Adv. Meitav Dagan, the buffet activities at Sami Ofer Stadium during the period relevant to the indictment generated significant financial income, which ranged from tens of thousands of NIS to hundreds of thousands of NIS per game, and accumulated to millions of NIS per Year of activity.
Due to the nature of the activity based on selling multiple food and beverage items to many buyers in short periods of time these revenues were for the most part in cash.
Doron Lahav is the owner and CEO of Neto, which in 2014 won a tender published by the Haifa Economic Company to operate the kiosks at Sami Ofer Stadium. In Haifa.
As part of the tender, the transfer or lease of any right or obligation granted to the Net Company is prohibited.
Despite the aforesaid, Neto has not yet begun operating the buffets. It was agreed between Lahav and Biran, Roi Luzon (son of Uri Luzon) and others, that Lahav will partially transfer the operation of the buffets in the stadium to Biran.
During the summer of 2016, and against the background of the previous business relationship between Biran and Lahav, in violation of the terms of the tender, the operation of the buffets and their control and income were transferred to the defendants.
Since the defendants do not meet the terms of the tender, Neto continued to present itself as the one that continues to operate the buffets and even made the reports and payments to the economic company.
This is when in practice the buffets were operated by the defendants who also controlled their income.
As part of a contract signed between Lahav and Ilan Chai (and in the opinion of Luzon and Biran), it was determined that Biran will operate the buffets at Sami Ofer Stadium instead of Neto.
In return, a net amount of approximately NIS 100,000 and a monthly payment of NIS 5,000 were paid to the net company.
Between August 2016 and July 2018, Luzon and Byrne operated the buffets and received the proceeds from their operation.
During the period, at the end of every football game in the stadium, all the monetary redemptions were collected, so Byrne transferred a total of 15% of the revenue to the buffet manager without any documentation (for payment for his work and for payment to employees, most of whom were minors).
In addition to Byrne on Luzon's opinion, he ordered a false recording of this revenue by reducing the amount given as payment to the buffet manager and after reducing the amount by half.
All this, in order to mislead the economic company regarding the amount to which it is entitled from the buffet revenues.
During this period, Luzon and Biran generated income from the operation of the buffets in the amount of NIS 8,607,690, and reported income in the amount of only NIS 4,303,845. The real income from operating the buffets
Doron Lahav, Uri Luzon, David Biran and Ilan Chai were charged with receiving anything fraudulently under aggravated circumstances and conspiracy to commit a crime. A statement of beneficiaries in a bank account to which the profits of the kiosks were transferred.
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