Romanian Politician Nati Meir Indicted On Fraud Charges

According to prosecutors, Meir took advantage of his position of lawmaker and presidential candidate, during January – October 2009, and defrauded eight people of a total 444,235 lei (EUR1=RON4.1298). Meir would lure his victims with fake banknotes, by posing as a financially potent person able to lend large sums of foreign currency based on mortgage guarantees.

Prosecutors also decided to halt criminal probes against Meir for circulation of forged currency and possession of forged currency with intent to circulate, after having concluded such currency could not be deemed liable for circulation.

They also decided that the competent criminal bodies would continue investigations against Nati Meir and other people in connection with other unlawful activities allegedly used to defraud other five people.

Meir has been under preventive arrest since October 20, 2009.

Meir, who has said many times he has inherited over $2 billion from a relative in the USA whose identity was never disclosed, was found guilty in numberless cases of fraud in Tel Aviv and Haifa, Israel, in the 1980s and 1990s.