The State Attorney’s Office filed an indictment in the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court against a resident of Ariel (52), attributing to him 11 charges for a series of fraud offenses totaling tens of thousands of shekels, involving forgery and impersonation.
According to the indictment, filed by Adv. Sapir Arad-Tana from the Central District Attorney’s Office, the accused systematically and fraudulently acted against advertisers of vehicles and other products on the “Yad 2” website. The accused contacted them, falsely presented himself as interested in purchasing the product, met with them, and agreed on a price – while falsely representing that payment would be made via bank transfer.
To this end, the accused presented the complainants with documents that appeared to be proof of money transfer, which he had forged, even though he knew he had not actually made any transfer and had no intention of paying for the vehicle or product.
In this manner, the accused defrauded, among others, car dealership owners, leaving them without the vehicles and without compensation, and fraudulently obtained vehicles and other products totaling tens of thousands of shekels.
The indictment also states that the accused impersonated a company employee to a work products store and made credit purchases totaling thousands of shekels.
In addition, the accused forged various documents and certificates, impersonated a paramedic, and attempted to join the MDA on-call system. In a real incident that occurred near Ariel, the accused arrived at the scene with his vehicle, presented himself to paramedics as a paramedic, and even treated a patient for several minutes – due to his alleged senior status – until a doctor arrived at the scene. Subsequently, the accused presented a forged paramedic certificate to a police officer, attempting to present himself as holding a valid license.
The Central District Attorney’s Office stated in the indictment that by his actions, the accused obtained various vehicles and products by fraud under aggravating circumstances, including due to the use of forged documents, the sophistication in committing the offenses, the multiplicity of acts, and the scope of the fraud. He is also charged with offenses of forging paramedic certificates and various medical certification certificates, using forged documents, and impersonating a paramedic.
The indictment attributes to the accused the commission of numerous offenses of obtaining something by fraud under aggravating circumstances, forging a document with the intent to obtain something, using a forged document, impersonating a certificate holder, and more.
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