Shuvu Banim affair: extended detention of Nachman and Nathan Berland • "wanted revenge"

Jerusalem Magistrates Court extended today (Thursday) the arrest of Nachman and Nathan Berland, and Menachem Yeshurun and Aaron Tfiilinsky suspected of serious offenses of counterfeiting, money laundering and more. Eran Hochberg was released to house arrest under restrictive conditions.

Last Monday Border central unit of the police - arrested seven men suspected in recent months engaged in money laundering hundreds of thousands of shekels, and fraud related to the assets and funds of the institution of the city.

Four of the seven detainees were taken the same day to the Jerusalem District Court, and remand extended by five days until Friday. Three other detainees, including an accountant, released under restrictive conditions.

The same week on Wednesday arrested another suspect named Menachem Yeshurun, driver and gabbai of Rebbetzin Berland, and extended his term until Monday, then extended again until today.

On Friday, the four of them were brought for the second time to discuss extending the detention, after a long discussion the judge ruled that there is room to respond to police requirements and extended the remand by 7 days.

Attorney Shimson Chen's lawyer Eran Hochberg was disappointed by the decision to release Eran to house arrest under restrictive conditions for seven days, and said to B'Chadrei Charedim that he "presented during the hearing overwhelming evidence that the relation of my client to counterfeiting and money laundering are very minor, and the judge accepted the position. But nevertheless they decided to release him under restrictive conditions within large financial contributions. "

About rumors regarding Eran Hochberg to serve as a state witness in this case, delivered to B'Chadrei Charedim Justice Ministry called the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office - Criminal, "we do not refer to this matter and is not to confirm or deny the allegations." Eran's attorney told B'Chadrei Charedim, "I vehemently deny that he is going to be state witness."

Nathan Berland first investigation answered questions which were general, the second investigation he kept silent. Master Sergeant Alon member police representative said that "the respondent has one of the primary functions and operations meeting money laundering, fraud and forgery." Judge noted that the cause of the hearing, remand is obstruction of justice "did not find the evidence base of the grounds of detention dangerous."

About Nachman, a representative member of the police sergeant noted that "While other respondents had a primary role in the case, respondent before us, is the main suspect in most sections, is the director of the NGO and the yeshiva and his hand is in all of it. He is involved in all methods of fraud we discovered in this affair. He is the activist, he is actually guiding how to steal and outlines the methods of fraud, the court can be impressed by the material I presented the methods used to Respondent. "The question of attorney, whether it is stealing from the state or donors, answered police representative that stealing money is the donors of NGOs in amounts of millions of shekels, used by the suspect and his family.

Attorney Shoshi Gaz representing the suspect, said, "It's no secret that in Breslov Chassidim a harsh war is going on, and it's sad and painful. Case came because of civil war. In this case that entire he could give evidence, should be suspicious to the police if he wants to tell the truth or revenge. Says that the matter is not removed version, it a matter of life and death. If Israel Police will ensure that evidence will not be published, he shall give his version. But it is life threatening.

Judge Miriam Lifshitz Prywes concluded the meeting and said that "the investigation material, some of those posts were taken after the previous remand shows that there is a reasonable suspicion that respondent's involvement in the offenses attributed to him, or some of them." She added, that "we are dealing with a large number of investigative actions which are planned, as the interrogation material found to indicate that there is a reasonable suspicion of involvement of individual respondent events attributed to him requiring and given the complexity of the investigation additional period of time of his arrest, in order to avoid the concern of obstruction of justice due to the nature of the activities and apparent familiarity of the respondent and other involved and other witnesses who planned investigative activities concerning them. "

Suspect Aaron Tfilinsky kept silent in both investigations and didn’t respond to questions.

A police representative said that the beginning of the hearing against suspect evidence accumulated since the most recent extension and performed a large number of investigative actions this affair. "Respondent has no small part to committing the offenses. He was Nachman's right hand."

His lawyer said that the first motion was filed, the grounds of detention was written 'fear of obstruction of justice; influence the witnesses and the public agency. Second request on the grounds of detention is written 'dangerous to the public and feared obstruction of justice. "Today we request the third, I believe that what the Court said in previous deliberations, the court said Tuesday that he considers dangerous. Meaning, we stayed with possible obstruction of justice here and do another diagnosis, while the first application was written in part on grounds 15" effect on witnesses "Today is the third request, no effect on witnesses. Representative said today requesting a number of things, the minutes of the hearing of the case of Menachem Yeshurun he believes that these days will not be sufficient to perform all operations. "

Attorney Koby Goldman, the lawyer of Aaron Tfilinsky, told B'Chadrei Charedim, "The judge did not discuss alternative detention as required by law, so we are considering what to do with our decision, and learn the moves."

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