Endangered lives: eggs smugglers affair indictments

Jerusalem District Attorney (Criminal), through Attorney Moriah Hirsch Cohen, the District Court filed an indictment against Zohar Mizrachi (42), Modiin, Mordechai Bohbot (52) from Beit Shemesh and three other defendants, for the transfer of fake eggs from the Palestinian Authority public areas without veterinary supervision eggs and without them being passed the examination process as required.

Another defendant, Solomon Reisner resident of Modi'in Illit, with a license to provide currency services, accused of doing the hiding and disguising transactions Source of funds received from smuggling eggs - while making money laundering a total volume of about 7 million, and income tax evasion and VAT.

Reisner fully released to house arrest under full supervision of his sister in Bnei Brak, a deposit in the amount of NIS 4,000, a signature and a third party guarantee of NIS 10,000 each, exclusion and non-contacting those involved, including each of the customers who deposited their behalf or on behalf of other checks to the respondent, whether it is legal checks and checks whether it is related to this affair, undertaking to appear at a police station or in court.

Zohar Mizrachi has a egg marketing business called "Eastern Glow Egg Marketing" provides eggs for business and private customers in Israel. The business has a shop on Netivot Street in Modi'in Illit and 38 warehouses in Modi'in Illit and Nahal Dolev Street in Beit Shemesh. Maizrachi marketed the eggs together with M. Bohbot, who served as right-hand man in running the operation.

According to the indictment, during the years 2011-2015 Mizrachi imported 2.5 million eggs that have been introduced illegally into Israel from the Palestinian Authority territory, with the intention of selling them without screening and supervision. The eggs being smuggled bought Jabber Tmizh (39) Adana, Bilal Read (43) and his son Abd al-Rahman Lbkirat (20) from Jerusalem. The five are charged with the marketing of eggs for a long time through fraud and thus raised the risk of the spread of salmonella, which even causes death.

As part of their business, and to increase the economic profits, they committed many crimes including aggravated forgery, fraud under aggravating circumstances and doing anything that would cause illness. Also, Mizrachi is accused of carrying out in order to conceal or disguise the source of money received from the sale of millions of eggs smuggled and offenses under the Income Tax and VAT.

To sell some of the eggs smuggled into Israel from eggs that have passed the inspection process as necessary and as detailed above, Mizrachi would request permission from eggs providers, including the accused Bilal Jaber Tmizh Lbkirat and Abd al-Rahman Lbkirat, worry about embedding eggs seals appear to seals which were minted by Israeli intelligence institutions. In addition counterfeit seals have created a false representation, whereby the eggs passed the test process required by an Israeli institute testing process, that the eggs are expiry and are not dangerous to eat.

In addition Mizrachi is charged that he didn’t issue tax invoices, did not report all its income to the tax authority, and did not pay the tax he had to pay. For this purpose, he used, inter alia, the services of Rizner from Modiin Illit to carry out money laundering.

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