Israel extradited to Austria An Israeli suspected in sting in amounts of tens of millions of euros

Israel has completed extradition to Austria this morning An Israeli suspect in the sting amounts to tens of millions of euros in the country: This is David Sofer, a resident of Ashdod, who is now expected to be prosecuted in Austria for aggravated fraud and money laundering offenses in 2015-2017.
He is expected to stand trial in Austria for his part in the activities of a criminal organization that deceived Austrian companies and fraudulently withdrew huge sums from them. The suspicion is that according to the pattern of action, known as "CEO scam", unknown individuals contacted employees of 18 Austrian companies' accounting departments, impersonated the company's CEO or one of his representatives and instructed employees to transfer large sums of money to bank accounts of straw companies. For alleged business financing. Some of those inquiries were successful, and company employees transferred funds to bank accounts of straw companies opened ahead of time outside Austria, using straw men, forged documents and fake identities.
According to the decision of the Jerusalem District Court hearing the extradition request, Sofer was the one who opened in Slovakia some of the press companies asked whose bank accounts the fraudulent funds were transferred to. Over 54 million euros were transferred as part of the successful scams.
Sofer was arrested in his office in February 2019 and shortly thereafter the International Department of the State Attorney's Office filed a petition declaring him extraditable to Austria. The extradition case was handled on behalf of the state by Adv. Yael Bitton from the International Department of the State Attorney's Office. After an coordination that included the participation of many factors such as the Interpol squad in the Israel Police, the IPS, the Ministry of Health and the International Department of the State Attorney's Office, his extradition to Austria was completed.
The International Department of the State Attorney's Office notes that criminal phenomena such as "CEO scams" have become widespread in recent years.