It could happen to anyone.
For Shmuli*, it began with an unsettling series of events in his everyday life. Unfamiliar credit card charges cropped up on his statements, purchases he’d never made, from places he’d never visited. His credit card inexplicably declined at the grocery store. The alarm bells truly began to ring when he received intimidating letters, written in Polish, accusing him of tax evasion. Each incident alone might have been dismissed as a mistake, but together, they formed a haunting picture:
Shmuli’s identity had been stolen.
In the chaos that followed, the young father-of-six from Bnei Brak was thrown into a Polish prison. He used his one available phone call to reach his wife in Bnei Brak. He explained the severity of the situation before the call was disconnected, leaving his family is a state of shock and distress.
The family is in dire need of assistance in acquiring legal defense, and affording the heavy fine necessary to release him. In the meantime, a father, whose youngest child is only 3 years old, remains in a European prison, surrounded by violent criminals.
The entire family is terrified, awaiting news, powerless as to how to afford legal defense. The hearing is this Thursday, July 27th. His wife has until then to raise the legal fees and fines to get him released.
Please help bring a father back home to his family and country, so he won’t chas v’shalom continue to suffer in a horrific European jail. According to the authorities closely monitoring the case, the severe conditions of his incarceration in Poland are exacting a significant toll on his mental wellbeing. Simultaneously, his family is grappling with his absence, as he serves as the family’s primary economic support.
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*Name has been changed