Detention at Butchers Association: issued fictitious coupons

Episode which consists of using fictitious salaries in the butchers association in Yafo - Tel Aviv, to benefit the cronies and others, was exposed yesterday when dozens of researchers of the Investigations Division of the Tax Authority carried out searches at the suspect's homes, in the homes of dozens more involved, and the offices of the Association.

Magistrates Court in Tel Aviv today extended the remand of Association head suspected of tax evasion estimated at the amount of millions of shekels, until Thursday.

Intelligence activities carried out in the Ministry Center IRS investigations, alleged suspicion that the suspect, 66-year-old from Bnei Brak, established an enrollment of fictitious employees from the Haredi sector, have issued pay slips upon their request. Accordance with suspicion, in 2004-2012 Association Managers took hundreds of checks in the name of employees who work for the Association, which used to deposit his accounts and the accounts of his relatives where he commissioned while forging the signatures of the employees on the back of the checks.

The payroll of those employees the suspect allegedly used to write for amounts that do not reach the tax threshold so that the tax was not reported to the tax authority at all. According to the confession of fictitious employees, allegedly reported as employees of the Association, they do not work for the Association and / or during periods in which their names were on the pay slips and it goes without saying that they did not receive the sums appearing in them. The fictitious payrolls were used by the employees to receive benefits from various authorities.

The arrest indicates that board members and senior employees at the Association would, according to their own admission, receive their salaries from the Association by bank transfer whilst at the same time, received an additional check, on the name of a fictitious employee, which they deposited in their bank accounts, accounts of family members or cashed them at Money Changers.

Due to the allegations, an open investigation was opened yesterday. Dozens of researchers by the Tax Authority offices Income Tax Investigations Center, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and central region carried out searches at the suspect's homes and other persons involved and the association's offices, during which many documents were pertinent to the allegations investigated. In addition, other documents were seized by the company accountant.

During the day other suspects will be taken to court.

Among the suspects: a Money Changer in Bnei Brak, who was arrested on suspicion of cashing checks of four million shekels for the Association. He is suspected of money laundering. The Money Change owner has been released on bail of more than a million shekels and exit delay.

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