Sold graves - and put it into his pocket

Haifa District Attorney's Office today filed (Sunday) an indictment against a senior employee at the Sephardic Chevra Kadisha in Haifa for stealing 703 thousand dollars from the organizations fund.

According to the indictment filed in the Magistrate's Court, Nathan Bitton used to sell burial plots and put the money into his pocket. In some cases he sold plots for a higher amount of their value, in other cases he took the money for himself, and gave the company postdated checks which were not honored.

The indictment charges Bitton for offenses of theft by an employee, aggravated forgery, fraud, breach of trust, corporation and falsifying corporate documents.
From April 2003 until December 2010, Bitton served as a senior employee of the Chevra Kadisha association, and part of his job, received - among other things - money from purchasers of burial plots for the Chevra Kadisha, and issued invoices of the company against the funds received.

According to the prosecution, since 2009, Nathan Bitton received money from purchasers, but put them in his pocket. The state argues that the cumulative amount of NIS 703,200 thousand were supposed to reach the Chevra Kadisha.
To hide the embezzlement, and after he issued an invoice for the purchase, Nathan Bitton issued falsified invoices, by changing the invoice information, pretending that the money was paid in postdated checks, although he received funds from the purchasers in cash, and used to transfer to the Chevra Kadisha postdated checks as payment for the lots.

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