Form 6-K G WILLI FOOD INTERNATION For: Jun 22

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 6-K

  

Report of Foreign Private Issuer

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For the month of June 2017

 

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G. Willi-Food International Ltd. (NASDAQ: WILC) (the "Company" or "Willi-Food"), a global company that specializes in the development, marketing and international distribution of kosher foods, reported that its controlling shareholder, Willi Food Investments Ltd. ("Willi Food Investments"), reported today that the Chairman of the Israel Securities Authority ("ISA") announced its decision to transfer the investigation filed in the matter of Willi Food Investments, B.S.D. Crown Ltd. ("BSD") and BGI Investments (1961) Ltd. ("BGI'') to the District Attorney's Office (Taxation and Economics) approximately a month ago to examine the submission of indictments against those involved in the case.

 

According to ISA announcement, the findings of the investigation indicate that sufficient evidence was found regarding the involvement of former controlling shareholders of Willi Food Investments, BSD and BGI, Alexander Granovskyi and others on his behalf, and Gregory Gurtovoy and others on his behalf, Joseph Schneerson, former CEO of BSD and a director of Willi Food Investments and others involved in offenses under the Israeli Securities Law and the Israeli Penal Law, including reporting offenses, fraudulent receipt, false registration in corporate documents, offenses by managers and employees in the corporation, fraud and breach of trust in the corporation and money laundering.

 

The findings of the investigation also show that Gurtovoy had fraudulently removed $3 million from the Company for the purchase of bonds of a Czech company, while concealing that this was in order to receive personal credit in the amount of millions of shekels from an Austrian bank for various uses.

 

Willi Food Investments clarified that the former controlling shareholders mentioned above and/or officers mentioned above no longer hold any positions in Willi Food Investments and/or in any of the companies under its control.  This includes the Company.

 

SIGNATURES

 

In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

	G. WILLI-FOOD INTERNATIONAL LTD. (the "Registrant")
Dated:  June 22, 2017	By:	/s/ Pavel Buber
		Name: Pavel Buber
		Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

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