15.03.2012                      21.Adar. 5772

Urteil:

Man gets 8 yrs for forging invoices worth millions

Defendant avoided punishment 15 years by convincing doctors he was suffering from a serious psychiatric complaint.

Fifteen years after he was first indicted, the Tel Aviv District Court sentenced meat and poultry wholesaler Gavriel Ravi Cohen to eight years in prison and fined him NIS 1 million on Tuesday, after finding him guilty of forging millions of shekels worth of invoices in the 1990s and 2000s. According to the indictment, Cohen falsified invoices totaling around NIS 46m. and made fictitious bookkeeping entries and Tax Authority returns worth around NIS 57m….