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The Tel Aviv District Court has ruled, in a precedent setting decision, that bribes amounting to $860,000 paid to government officials in a foreign country to promote a deal will not be considered an expense recognized for taxation purposes in Israel. Judge Magen Altuvia said in justifying his decision that, although the bribe was paid overseas and related to overseas activity, nevertheless, “the country’s values do not stop at its borders; if bribe payments are allowed as an expense, the Israeli tax paying public becomes a partner in these  foul acts.”

Details of the company and the country involved were not allowed to be published, in order not to endanger the people concerned.

The Tel Aviv District Court declared that even if a bribe is paid overseas, the country’s values do not stop at its borders.

According to the company, the Netanya tax inspector undertook to recognize 8-10% of the expenses as “special” expenses, even without supporting documentation, but eventually changed his mind.

“In allowing bribery expenses, a seal of approval is given to corrupt and corrupting conduct, to corrupt regimes that do damage to the world’s economic fabric, for example by harming fair competition and in other ways,” the judge said.

Altuvia added that bribery and recognition of bribery undermined the foundations of freedom and equality. “This allowance contradicts Israel’s obligation to be faithful to the United Nations charter,” he said.

source: Globes Online

  Dutch police arrested three women, aged 18, 24 and 28, on Saturday, who forgot to take with them the child they took with them on their proletarian shopping spree. They had left the 4-year-old in a shopping cart inside the supermarket they had tried to steal groceries from. This was announced by the police in a press release

A total of four women tried to leave the store, with their shopping bags full of groceries, without paying for the wares. Unfortunately for the women, supermarket personnel subjected them to a routine checkup. The women decided to make a run for it and left the shopping bags and shopping cart containing the child in the store.

Later that day, the police was able to arrest three of the women after they had decided to come back for the kid.

A 29 year old Belorussian is happy to be alive. Local police found him on the street and decided to rush him to the hospital. Doctors measured a deadly blood alcohol level: 1170mg per 100 ml blood. This was 22 times the amount allowed to drive a motorvehicle and twice the amount usually considered lethal.

According to the doctors the reason for this insane level of intoxication was the fact that the guy finished five bottles of vodka in record time. The drunk was unconscious for two consecutive days. "When he opened his eyes, he had a bit of a headache", one of the doctors told the press.