According to the Indictment, filed by Adv. Tali Peretzoun from the Cyber Department of the State Attorney’s Office, over the past year, Berihon impersonated a woman through fictitious accounts on various social networks, including Ketchat, Telegram, and Facebook, and enticed men to pay him sums of money, either through false promises to send them sexual content, or by claiming to be a soldier in need of financial assistance or a single mother in need of money, among other things.
After they paid him money or engaged in sexual correspondence with him, Berihon extorted some of them and threatened them that if they did not continue to pay him, he would reveal the relationship to their partners or other relatives. In several cases, he even enticed men to expose themselves to him on video and threatened to distribute the footage if they did not pay him.
Thus, he received over NIS 27,000 from 28 victims.
The prosecution requested to detain Berihon until the end of the legal proceedings against him, noting his sophisticated, systematic, and meticulous actions which indicate he has no boundaries. Berihon “did not have mercy on his victims, acted systematically and presented false pretenses in order to fraudulently obtain money from them, exploited their innocence and trust in his false pretenses, ignored their refusals, and instilled fear in them with his threats,” the detention request stated.
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