An employee of the Haifa municipality is accused of distributing sexual content of hundreds of Israeli women and girls
Sexual harassment, invasion of privacy, advertising fraudulent prostitution services and breach of trust
indictment against Ronan Shaikh, 29 years old, works in Haifa Municipality, was submitted on behalf of the Cyber Department at the State Attorney's Office, to the Haifa Magistrate's Court, for sexual harassment, invasion of privacy, advertising and attempted advertising of prostitution services, fraud and breach of trust.
The indictment filed against the accused describes how the accused established, activated and managed dozens of groups and channels in the Telegram application, which served as a platform for the distribution of photos and videos containing explicit sexual content of hundreds of Israeli women and girls, some of them minors.

intimate photos
According to the indictment, submitted by attorneys Itai Gohar and Moran Ashol, the accused used to distribute photos and videos of a sexual nature of Israeli women and girls, without their consent. their personal on social networks, and this for the purpose of identifying them, and to prove to the members of the groups that these are Israeli women who do not work in the sex industry. In the groups that the defendant created and managed, there were over 100,000 Telegram users who consumed the distributed content.
Serious damage to the lives of the complainants
The indictment details the case of approximately 190 complainants who submitted complaints to the police regarding the distribution of intimate photos and videos of themselves in groups run by the defendant, along with their personal details that enabled their identification.
Many of the victims reported significant damages caused to them as a result of the publications, which include, among others, social anxiety, sexual harassment on social networks, leaving settings, the need for professional mental support, taking psychiatric pills, difficulty going out into public spaces, difficulty creating relationships and trusting the same sex The second and even suicidal attempts.
One of the victims even reported a significant functional difficulty in going out into the public space until she recently underwent plastic surgery to change her facial features, in order to avoid being recognized on the street.

Advertise prostitution services
The indictment also describes how the defendant built and used a "control panel" that allowed him to control the dozens of groups he created on Telegram using various bots. In addition to this, it is described how the accused used Telegram groups and channels, in order to publish ads regarding prostitution services for payment. The defendant even offered his advertising services to women in prostitution, who he believed were interested in advertising services on the Telegram application. For these actions, the defendant is charged with advertising and attempting to advertise prostitution services.
Fraud, breach of trust and invasion of privacy
Also, during the investigation it was discovered that the accused, while working in the collection department of the Haifa municipality, used to fraudulently copy details of debit cards to which he was exposed during his work, all without the permission or knowledge of his employers and card holders. For these acts, the defendant was charged with the offense of fraud and breach of trust and violation of privacy.
The largest indictment filed in Israel in the area of the "Video Law"
The Director of the Cyber Department at the State Attorney's Office, Dr. Haim Wismonski, said:
This indictment is part of a targeted enforcement activity that is carried out against designated groups for distributing intimate content of women without their consent (offenses against the "Video Law"). This case joins a number of other indictments filed by the cyber department in the prosecutor's office in the past year against dominant and prominent managers in such groups.
This is the largest indictment filed in Israel for violations of the "Video Law", both in terms of the number of victims of the crime and in terms of the extent of distribution of the sexual content (which was distributed to over 100,000 Telegram users).
The investigation into the case was conducted by the cyber section of the Tel Aviv District Attorney's Office of the Israel Police. During the investigation, the investigating unit, with the approval of the prosecutor's office, acted to "seize" most of the groups that were conducted on Telegram and stop the publication and distribution of the intimate contents of the complainants.
This is an enforcement activity.
Time after time they remind us that there is no privacy on the net and that everything that goes up is leaked.
Every time irresponsible users are rediscovered.
The perpetrator should be punished, but it's time to learn lessons.
It's mental murder. 21 years inside.
Imprisonment for 10 years