The State Prosecutor's Office has filed 19 indictments against companies and other suspects on suspicion of money laundering and the distribution of false tax invoices with the aim of carrying out an "economic attack" against the state.
An investigation of the affair began in January of this year, during which it was revealed that the criminal activity caused economic damage to state coffers estimated at hundreds of millions of shekels. Three heads of a crime organization were arrested in Spain on suspicion of taking over companies and opening straw companies whose sole function was to provide false accounting coverage for employing workers.