Barlev Investigative Auditing

The firm of Barlev Accountants, Investigative Auditing was founded in 1988 by Yehudah Barlev C.P.A.(Isr.), who combined the fields of investigations and intelligence with accounting and auditing, thus establishing the field of Investigative Auditing, which later received formal recognition in Israel and globally.

Areas of Operations

Throughout its years of practice, the firm is specializing exclusively in the field of investigative auditing and forensic accounting which is defined as: prevention, detection and quantification of fraud, money laundering, terror financing and corruption. Today an integral part of the accounting profession, recognized by the academy, the Courts and the administration. The firm’s investigative auditing expertise is applied across family law matrimonial cases, valuations and expert opinion in Courts, cybercrime and crypto corruption investigations. The firm’s work methodologies integrate deep knowledge and expertise in its field, with cutting-edge AI tools.
The firm investigates and assists victims to recover financial losses from: financial fraud, trading scams, pump and dump scam, Ponzi schemes, cryptocurrency fraud, binary options scams, wire fraud and etc.

The Largest in its Field in Israel

The firm is the largest Investigative Auditing firm in Israel and one of the leading and most esteemed globally. It employs about 30 employees, including forensic accountants, cyber, internal auditing, risk management and legal professionals.
The firm offers services to clients in Israel and abroad, including lawyers, accountants, CFOs, directors, internal auditors, including in government ministries and agencies, public and private companies, courts, public institutions, NGOs, Kibbutzim and Moshavim, public officials, and private individuals.

Handling Prominent Economic and Social Affairs

Over the years, the firm has handled many hundreds of fraudulent affairs. The firm has played a key role in most of the large fraud cases in the Israeli economy. One of the most infamous affairs that it handled was the embezzlement of “Trade Bank” affair. Another prominent affair that the firm handled was the tracing and recovery of properties of holocaust victims, which led to the recovery of more than NIS 100 million to survivors and descendants. Other affairs that the firm handled were the fraud affairs in the telecommunication company “Yes” and Kibbutz Shfaim. The firm also conducted dozens of investigative audits abroad for governments and corporations worldwide.
Yehudah Barlev, Managing Partner and Founder The firm’s founder, is one of the world’s top investigative auditors. He worked in various enforcement units in Israel, managing large-scale investigative audits in Israel and abroad, prevention of national-level corruption and civil disputes. Yehudah lectures in the academy and in international conferences on investigative auditing, economic offences, corruption, money laundering and terror financing. He is the author of the book “The Principles of Investigative Auditing” and dozens of articles in the field.
Yaniv Buchnik, Managing Partner – Served as a criminal investigator in the Military Police Corps (MPC) and consults (in his reserves service) the corps’ National Fraud Investigations Unit on fraud and economic offences. Heads the firm’s family law and divorce department, which has vast experience in investigative audits in divorce proceedings and handled dozens of such cases, including as expert witness appointed by the family and rabbinical courts. He is a C.P.A.(Isr.), and holds a B.A. from the College of Management and an LL.M. from Bar Ilan University. Yaniv lectures in courses and seminars on investigative auditing in several academic institutes.
Yom Tov Bilu, Partner/Head of the Haifa and North Branch- former criminal investigator in the MPC.Before joining the firm, he was partner in an accounting firm and also worked as a private investigator specializing in fraud insurance. He is a C.P.A.(Isr.), and holds a B.A., from Haifa University. Bilu has vast experience also in internal audits, and he serves as the internal auditor of water corporations, NGOs and public companies and as an expert on behalf of courts or litigants. Bilu is also appointed as a special administrator by various courts in business and/or family disputes.
Elinor Wolff, Managing Partner – Elinor Wolff C.P.A.(Isr.) brings a unique combination of vast professional experience with a compassionate and attentive approach. Over the years, Elinor has accompanied a long list of government agencies and organizations in investigative audits, exposing and preventing embezzlement and frauds. She is an authority in this field, owing to her ability to get to the bottom of the issue, analyze complex situations, simplify them and suggest clear and actionable solutions to the clients. Elinor excels in integrating insights, experience and familiarity from various content fields into her practice– a distinct advantage that adds value to her clients.
Keren Saban, Managing Partner – Keren Saban C.P.A.(Isr.) heads the firm’s valuations departments, covering companies, businesses, pensions, life insurance, stock options, personal goodwill and earning capacity, and career assets, as well as financial and accounting analyses, reviews of financial and operational processes for preventing fraud, assessing the reliability of financial statements and more. The firm’s partners are included in the court experts list in its their expertise.

The Bnei-Brak-based firm practices two main areas:
Conventional Investigative Audits – headed by CPA Yehudah Barlev with investigative audit teams of experienced and skilled CPAs.
Family and Divorce – headed by Yaniv Buchnik and his teams. The firm has excellent reputation in this field and is appointed by courts to provide expert opinions, balancing of resources, valuations, asset tracing, and more.
Meggido – A leading company of the Barlev Associates. Group, active in the financial and business intelligence field, integrating human expertise with cutting-edge technologies. The company offers a wide range of services to its clients with deep insights on their business and financial environment. Meggido’s expertise: depth financial investigations, cyber intelligence, fraud prevention intelligence, asset tracing, deep due diligence.

Sensitivity and Prudence

Since Investigative Auditing has no written methodology and the clients’ interests and goals change from case to case, the firm relies on its vast accumulated experience and knowledge. The firm’s teams use the tools that they acquired with maximal professionalism, diligence, sensitivity and prudence.
The Firm’s Vision
To transfer the knowledge it accumulated by the partners to the next generations of forensic and investigative auditors, to students and members of enforcement and audit units.