Jerusalem: Suspects detained for allegedly pocketing tens of millions of shekels in charity scam.
Six suspects were arrested for alleged involvement in a Mea She'arim financial scandal on Sunday morning, Army Radio reported. They are suspected of pocketing tens of millions of shekels in charity donations they had collected.
Tax Authority and police units began investigating the suspects, five of whom are haredi (ultra-Orthodox), after receiving intelligence information about their alleged crimes.
According to the police investigation, the six have operated out of an office on Rappaport Street in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea She'arim since the early 2000s. Working under a number of titles, including "The Fund for Widows and Orphans" and "Charity Bank," they managed to collect millions of shekels that they then took for themselves.
The suspects were scheduled to be brought to court on Sunday for a remand hearing, Globes reported.
"The Eda Haredit was furious over the arrests and threatened to “set Jerusalem on fire,” "
ReplyDeleteI thought that the Eida made it perfectly clear that nobody can speak on behalf of the Eida. Whatever.
And why threaten violence all the time? Look at the protest pics following the arrests. They're just proving to the world that they act like animals and do nothing but protest all day. How many protests were there in the last few weeks? These Eidah-types appear to be doing everything they can to ensure that the entire Jewish world from the chiloni to normal charedim, look at them as being nothing but a group of violent weirdos. And it would appear that most people agree.