David Blumberg, a citizen of France and Israel, who was arrested in Israel in November 2016, was extradited from Israel to France after he escaped a year earlier from prison in France.

After his arrest in November 2016, the International Department of the State Attorney’s Office filed a petition with the Jerusalem District Court to order the extradition of Blumberg to France for the purpose of carrying out the rest of his sentence for fraud offenses after escaping from jail during a leave. In September 2017, the District Court accepted the petition, approving the extradition to France. Bloomberg’s appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court in November 2018, making his declaration a final one.

In 2018, the French government filed another extradition request regarding Blumberg, and in September 2018 the International Department of the State Prosecutor’s Office filed a petition with the Jerusalem District Court to order the extradition of Bloomberg and his partner to France for prosecution for serious fraud offenses.

The Ministry of Justice report adds, the petition alleges that Bloomberg and his partner ran a number of companies between 2008 and 2009 to carry out a large-scale VAT scam that resulted in evading millions of euros from the French tax authorities, and in January 2019 the District Court accepted the petition.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)