The Jerusalem Magistrates Court has imposed a sentence of six months' public service, a nine-month suspended sentence and forfeiture of NIS 650,000 on Ruth Basson, an investment adviser at the First International Bank who took money from a Holocaust survivor.
Nearly a million shekels were returned during the investigation and the victim received another NIS 1.4 million in a civil suit filed against the bank and the suspects. According to the indictment, the investment advisor exploited the woman's lack of knowledge and experience in financial matters, and caused her to change her will in favor of the defendant.