
Israeli state prosecutors sued four new immigrants from France on Wednesday for allegedly manipulating a major international scam, posing as company executives, and costing five European companies about £ 9.
1 million euros, about $10 million.
The loss-making companies include German electronics retailer MediaMarkt, Belgian electronics company Eldi, European supermarket chain Cora, multinational perfume chain Paris XL and Dutch hardware store owner Intergamma, the indictment said.
About 24 other companies have also been involved in the case, including candy maker Mars, senior fashion company Chanel, Italian sportswear retailer Diadora, and beer brewing giant Anheuser-
According to the indictment, Budweiser InBev, the automaker Kia and Toyota, though not all companies are deceived.
The situation shows, so --
In Israel, Gilbert Chilley, the man known as the fake CEO scam, is still living in public to escape attempts by France to arrest him.
There is no doubt about Chikli in the current case. The French-
The defendants who were born were identified as Henry omessi, Daniel Michael Allen, Jeremy lallum and Mordecai laluce.
They appeared at a court hearing on Wednesday.
Rotem Tubul, counsel for Omessi, said that neither her client nor the other defendants pleaded guilty.
"Because it relates to evidence from many countries in the world, there are clearly difficulties in handling this case in Israel, and it is doubtful whether it is possible to overcome these difficulties, said Liya Felus, counsel for allon.
The Israeli prosecutor said the migrants collected information about European companies, including the names of the company's employees and the details of the suppliers who did business with them.
Then, according to the prosecutor, they created fake email accounts, sent fake documents to employees in charge of finance, showing themselves as a representative of the CEO or supplier.
They then instruct employees to send money to the new "clearing company" used by the supplier.
In fact, the Clearing Company is a shell company controlled by the defendant in the bank account.
According to Wednesday's indictment, in a scam that took place on November and December, the defendant pretended to be a senior executive of the German electronics giant Bosch and emailed a senior executive of ELDI, tell him Bosch has started working with a new clearing company and ask him to update his records with the company's new bank account information.
Eldi turned 794,175 later.
Shell's bank account at PKO bank Polski, Poland's largest bank, owes Bosch 70 euros.
According to prosecutors, in another scam, the defendant pretended to be an employee of Electrolux, a Swedish appliance company, and cheated German electronics retailer MediaMarkt to send them 1 million euros.
The defendant was also allegedly posing as chief financial officer of Mars. -
Manufacturer of M & MS and Snickers candy--
And persuaded Cora, a supermarket chain, to send 322,264.
Instead, their bank accounts owe 70 euros to Mars.
At the same time, the accused allegedly pretended to be a Cora representative, trying to convince Mars that the remittance was delayed due to technical reasons.
In one of the biggest scams, the defendant allegedly impersonated an employee of Chanel and persuaded ICI Paris XL to transfer nearly five employees.
€ 5 million to the account of the Slovak branch of the Bank of Bulgaria joint Credit Bank.
Two Italians.
Born immigrants Enzo Bundi and Itzhak sonno were allegedly recruited to expand the company's operations in Italy.
Prosecutors are suing them in another case. -but failing --
Stealing money from Italian diners clubs and other companies
It is not clear how the defendants got the money from their bank accounts in Europe.
One defendant tried to clean some of these diseases.
Obtaining money by depositing cash into the currency exchange business, in turn, an employee of the business attempted to deposit the smaller amount of money into the bank account of the defendant and others, but the prosecutor said, the Bank of Israel refused the money every time in a suspicious capacity.
On the morning of May 2, French media reported on Israel-
According to the indictment, the scammers against the French company "attracted the attention of the defendant ".
Three minutes later, the three defendants began to disassemble the hard drive and destroy the computers used in the scam.
On the same day, police raided the defendant's office in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, where a large number of French immigrants lived, after nearly six people.
Including the monthly secret investigation of video surveillance in the office.