An accounts department employee worker with Israel's
"Yes" satellite television provider has appeared in court charged
with embezzling NIS 24 million from the company.
The suspect, a 38-year-old
from the Sharon area, denies the allegations and was to appear at Petah Tikva
Magistrate's Court on Friday for a remand hearing. Police want to detain her
for 10 days for further questioning.
The satellite services company told the Israel Police's
local fraud squad that the unnamed suspect has been stealing from the company
for the past decade.
The company said that they filed the complaint after the
fraud was discovered during the past two days. Following the complaint, an investigation
was launched and the employee was arrested.
Police investigators went to the employee's home, searched
it and took her in for questioning. Police officials say that the suspect wrote
false entries in the company's accounts database, and forged signatures on
company checks that she then deposited in her personal bank accounts. Police
believe that she opened multiple accounts in fictitious names.
Police say that she is accused of aggravated fraud, false
registration of company documents, money laundering and intentional omission of
income.
Her lawyers say that their client denies all the accusations
against her, and that she has no connection to the money that disappeared from
the company.
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