First accusations were brought to the Russian
The first indictments at case of money-laundering in "Hapoalim" bank were announced at circuit court of Tel Aviv.
According to the document charges were brought against four bank customers from Russia: adviser of capital investments Urii Vinnik, owner of a company registered on Virginia islands "Minton" deputy director of a Russian construction firm Pavel Lang and his wife, and office worker of Langa company Ludmila Takhor.
According to the indictment these people transmitted money to their own accounts in Europe through the branch bank "Hapoliam" in Tel Aviv about $7,5 million. On the accounts of "Minton" company in Israeli bank money did not stay more than one or two days.
As Office of Public Prosecutor considers, there will be brought charges against other bank customers and some of its workers. Some agreement were reached with supposed accused about cooperation with justice, Israeli mass-media inform. First many former and present Russian large-scale businessmen were suspected of money-laundering at "Hapoliam" including Vladimir Gusinskii and Leonid Nevzlin.
The case of "Hapoalim" bank is considered to be the first-rate shady deal with money-laundering in Israel. Israeli police froze 180 accounts and arrested 24 workers of the branch bank number 535 in Tel Aviv during the investigation. Investigators claimed that only during 2004 year hundreds of millions of dollars passed through the bank with illegal money-laundering.
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