The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office (criminal) has filed an indictment in the city Magistrate’s Court against Tomer Mishaeli for attempting to obtain anything fraudulently under aggravated circumstances from the parents of the football player Dor Micha.
According to the indictment, filed by Adv. Efrat Rotem, during June 2020, the Israel Police conducted an investigation against footballers, including Dor Micha, on suspicion of committing sexual offenses with two minors. During the investigation, the defendant tried to contact Dor Micha’s parents (the complainants ) By phone and text messages. One day the defendant managed to talk to the complainants by phone, introduced himself as Guy and falsely claimed that he was a cousin of one of the minors complaining in the investigation file, and that he could cause the complaint against Dor to be dismissed in exchange for money. With the complainants several more times and again falsely claimed in front of them that he could cause minors, dismiss their complaint and say in their testimony that they lied to a generation about their real age, all in exchange for a payment of NIS 100-200,000.
The next morning the accused sent the complainants further text messages in order to check their position. On the advice of their lawyer, they agreed to proceed with the process subject to a meeting with the minor’s father. Later in the day, the complainants filed a complaint with the Israel Police. At that time, the defendant called the complainant several more times, however the complainant did not answer his calls and in the afternoon the defendant sent the complainant a message asking him to stop the process. Notwithstanding the foregoing, later in the day the defendant again called the complainants. In this conversation, the complainants agreed to the defendant’s request for payment of NIS 250,000 for the cancellation of the minors’ complaint, subject to a meeting with the minor’s father, but the defendant demanded some of the money before meeting with the father.
Subsequently, and in order to put further pressure on the complainants, the accused claimed that the minor was expected to arrive at the police station to testify in a few minutes and that if the money was transferred to him he would prevent her from arriving at the police station. He further claimed that a video of the incident would be released soon and that he could prevent this subject to the transfer of payment. The complainants refused to transfer payment before talking to the minor’s father. Defendant in response told them he would make sure the father called them immediately and the call ended. From that moment on, the complainant stopped answering the defendant’s calls and the connection was severed.