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Ofer Hugi (born 17 April 1964) is a former Israel
Israel

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i politician who served as a Knesset
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 member for Shas
Shas

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 from 1999 to 2003 and again for just under a month in 2006. In 2007 he was sent to prison for various charges related to forgery and fraud.

r finishing school, Hugi was conscripted into the IDF
Israel Defense Forces

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, where he attained the rank of Staff Sergeant. After completing his service he studied for a B.A.






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Ofer Hugi (born 17 April 1964) is a former Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i politician who served as a Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
 member for Shas
Shas

Shas is a List of political parties in Israel in Israel, primarily representing Haredi Judaism Sephardi Jews and Mizrahi Jews Judaism. Following the Israeli legislative election, 2006 in which Shas won 12 seats, it joined Ehud Olmert's coalition government and holds four cabinet posts....
 from 1999 to 2003 and again for just under a month in 2006. In 2007 he was sent to prison for various charges related to forgery and fraud.

Background

After finishing school, Hugi was conscripted into the IDF
Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew Acronym and initialism Tzahal , are Israel's military forces, comprising the GOC Army Headquarters, Israeli Air Force and Israeli navy....
, where he attained the rank of Staff Sergeant. After completing his service he studied for a B.A. in Rabbinical Ordination, and went on to work as an administrator.

Political career

Hugi joined Shas
Shas

Shas is a List of political parties in Israel in Israel, primarily representing Haredi Judaism Sephardi Jews and Mizrahi Jews Judaism. Following the Israeli legislative election, 2006 in which Shas won 12 seats, it joined Ehud Olmert's coalition government and holds four cabinet posts....
, a Mizrahi
Mizrahi Jews

Mizrahi Jews or Mizrahim, , also referred to as Adot HaMizrach are Jews descended from the Jewish communities of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
/Sephardi
Sephardi Jews

Sephardi Jews are a subgroup of Jews originating in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, usually defined in contrast to Ashkenazi or Mizrahi Jews....
 Ultra-orthodox
Haredi Judaism

Haredi or Chareidi Judaism is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. A follower of Haredi Judaism is called a Haredi ....
 party. He was elected to the Knesset in the 1999 elections when the party won an unprecedented 17 seats, making it the third largest party after One Israel
One Israel

One Israel was an alliance of the Labor Party , Meimad and Gesher created to run for the Israeli legislative election, 1999....
 (the Labour Party
Labor (Israel)

The Israeli Labor Party , generally known in Israel as Avoda is a center-left political party in Israel. It is a social democracy and Labor Zionism party, a member of the Socialist International and an observer member of the Party of European Socialists....
) and Likud
Likud

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. However, Hugi lost his seat in the 2003 elections when the party was reduced to 11 seats (he was 12th on the list), possibly as a result of the party's growing reputation for corruption, several of its members having been convicted of various fraudulent offences.

He did briefly enter the Knesset at the end of April 2006 after Shas MK Yair Peretz
Yair Peretz

Yair Peretz is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shas from 1999 until being convicted of fraudulently obtaining an academic degree in March 2006....
 had resigned from the Knesset after being convicted of fraud (he had fraudulently obtained an academic degree), but the Knesset was dissolved on 17 April and Hugi did not win a seat in the 2006 elections.

Conviction

After replacing an MK who had been convicted of fraud, in December 2006 Hugi was found guilty of aggravated forgery, using forged documents (by recording a fictitious salary for his wife he avoided income tax), receiving items through fraudulent means, false registration of a corporation and attempting to receive items through fraudulent means (including Education Ministry funding for student transportation). This was in relation to a technical college which he founded in the late 1990s, and had received hundreds of thousand of shekels
Israeli new sheqel

The Israeli New Sheqel is the currency of Israel. The new sheqel is divided into 100 agorot . Denominations made in this currency are marked with the sheqel sign....
 for, though it later became apparent that the lists of students and teachers he had provided were fictitious.

In February 2007, Hugi was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay a 12,000 shekel fine.

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