The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office filed a request today (Wednesday) with the city's District Court to amend the indictment against Rabbi Elazar Berland and add two charges dealing with tax offenses and money laundering.
His secret: Earn a prestigious degree without preparatory school and without prerequisites • Want one too?On 3/1/20, an indictment was filed in court accusing the leader of the 'Shuvo Banim' community of two charges: the first charge - which includes the offenses of extortion and fraud; and the second charge - which attributes to the defendant the offense of attempted incitement to violence.
Don't be a sucker: You may be entitled to a lot of money from National Insurance.Simultaneously with the filing of the indictment, a request was submitted to the court to detain the defendant until the conclusion of the legal proceedings against him.
At the same time, an investigation was conducted against the suspect and other involved parties for tax offenses and money laundering. It should be emphasized that the investigation originally began as a single investigation, but later, the investigation of the economic offenses was separated from the investigation of the extortion and fraud offenses, after it became clear that completing the investigation into the economic offenses would require a lot of additional time and many additional actions that could not be performed during the period of detention for investigative purposes.
The investigation into the economic offenses continued for another two and a half months, at the end of which Rabbi Berland was summoned for a hearing.
The request submitted by the prosecution stated that all the charges are derivatives of the same affair, which describes various criminal acts by the defendant while he served as head of the Shuvo Banim community and represented a rabbinical and spiritual authority for the community members, who must act according to its rulings and instructions.
Using this status, the defendant engaged in providing various services for a fee between 2010 and 2020, including conducting funerals, giving blessings, consulting in various fields, and home classes.
The two charges that are being requested to be joined relate to the defendant's conduct in operating a business within the framework of which the offenses were committed by the defendant.
The offenses attributed to Rabbi Berland are tax offenses - evasion of income amounting to 138,000,000 shekels starting in 2010, as well as money laundering offenses amounting to 54,000,000 shekels.
The case was investigated by the Israel Police in cooperation with the Money Laundering Prohibition Authority and the Tax Authority.
The court forwarded the request for the defendant's response until August 4, 2020. .
Rabbi Berland has been detained until the end of the proceedings. The case, which is being heard before Judge Einat Abman-Muller in the Jerusalem District Court, is in the preliminary arguments stage and the evidentiary hearings are expected to be heard starting in September 2020.
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