The Tel Aviv District Court convicted the company 'Alber', in accordance with its admission, of fraud and tax offenses.
As part of the plea agreement, the parties will request that the company be fined 18 million NIS.
As part of the plea agreement reached by the parties, attorneys Yifat Gdanken, Einav Oral Cohen and Yotam Goldstein from the Taxation and Economics Attorney's Office submitted an amended indictment, which indicates that starting in 2013, Alber sought to enter the field of parallel importation of vehicles.
For this purpose, and in order to obtain a parallel importer permit and licenses to import various vehicle models, the company, along with other parties involved, presented false documents and agreements intended to create a false representation of compliance with the requirements of the law.
Based on these representations, the company received the permits and licenses necessary for its operations from the Ministry of Transportation.
Subsequently, and based on the permits obtained fraudulently, Alber imported 1,828 vehicles into Israel with a total value of more than 176 million NIS.
According to the indictment, as part of the import activity, the 'Alber' company used additional false documents, including fake sales invoices and false certificates of origin, which were intended to present to the authorities a representation that the vehicles were imported in accordance with the terms of the permits issued and in order to qualify for various tax benefits.
It also appears that approximately 1,600 false import declarations were submitted to the customs authorities, which included misleading details regarding import transactions.
It is alleged that the reports submitted reduced the reported acquisition costs by more than NIS 4 million relative to their actual costs. In addition, false entries were made in the company's books, using fictitious documentation intended to disguise the true costs of the transactions and the source of the funds.
In light of the above, the court convicted the company 'Alber' in accordance with its admission of the offenses of receiving something by fraud, smuggling and other customs offenses, VAT offenses, use of a forged document, submission of false import declarations, evasion of payment of import taxes and false registration in corporate documents.
As part of the plea agreement, the parties requested that the company be fined NIS 18 million. The parties agreed as part of the agreement that the requested fine, which constitutes a significant financial penalty, meets the public interest in the circumstances of the case, and expresses Alber's acceptance of responsibility for the actions committed by its senior executives.
The proceedings against the remaining defendants in the case continue.
The investigation was carried out by the Haifa Customs and VAT Investigations Unit of the Tax Authority and the Coast Guard Investigations Unit of the Israel Police.
אבירם בלזר יועץ התקשורת של אלבר מסר: "מדובר באירוע מלפני 12 שנים בזמנה של הנהלה שסיימה את תפקידה ב-2015. לכן בחרה חברת אלבר לשים את האירוע ההיסטורי הזה מאחוריה ולהתקדם קדימה, כדי להמשיך ולשרת בנאמנות וביעילות את עשרות אלפי לקוחותיה תוך שמירה על מהלך עסקים תקין ויציב "
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