Nava Hans, Law Firm

Nava Hans Law Firm is a boutique office that specializes in taxes, white-collar offences and money laundering and represents companies and individuals in cases that handling them requires solving complex legal and financial issues. The firm was founded by attorney Nava Hans in 2021 and it specializes in large and complex cases along all of the criminal-legal process: accompaniment of the investigation since its beginning, representation in arrests and representation in the legal tribunals. The office escorts and advises its customers in diverse cases, among them cases of fraud, theft by an authorized person, money laundering and tax evasion – violations of the income tax ordinance, violation of the real estate taxation law, violations of the value-added tax (vat) laws, violation of the custom law and violations of the insolvency law. The firm’s clients include accounting firms and tax consultants. The head branch is located in Ramat Hasharon and another branch operates in Rosh Pina, while it is focusing on providing a solution for business owners from the northern region, whose businesses were damaged during the Iron Swords war.

Attorney Nava Hans, Founder and Owner

At the head of office stands advocate Nava Hans, licensed to practice law in Israel from 2000, and in New-York from 2004. Nava started her impressive career as a pre-intern in the field of criminal offences with Judge Moshe Shamai, in the Magistrate’s Court in Tel Aviv. Afterwards, she did her internship with the late Judge Yehudit Amsterdam, who dealt in a variety of white-collar offences such as taxes, securities, fraudulent receipt, bribery and more.
In 2000 Adv. Hans started to work at the tax authority in the legal department, as a prosecutor and a legal advisor, at the tax assessor, Tel Aviv investigations. In 2007 she moved to the civil prosecution in Tel Aviv district, in the fiscal department (civil taxes), and in 2010 she established the prosecution department, in the legal department at the tax authority, central district. Under her management the department dealt with tax offences and also held hearings, filed indictments and closed files. In addition, Adv. Hans served as a legal advisor to investigations of tax offences and money laundering and within the framework of this position she accompanied, among others, a number of joint investigation teams and also dealt in writing legal opinions. In addition, she provided ongoing consultation in all phases of the investigation including pre-investigation. She also served as a lecturer in inspectors’ courses, courses for economic enforcement at the police and the prosecution, and also wrote exams in civil and criminal taxation. In parallel, she acted as an investigator and a prosecutor of the council of tax consultants for over than a decade. By education, she has a bachelor’s degree in criminology from the Bar Ilan University, which she graduated with honors, LL.B. (Bachelor’s Degree) in law and LL.M (Master’s Degree) in commercial law.

An Attorney that Comes “From Within the System”
Adv. Hans moved to the private sector after 20 years of service in senior positions in the taxation system. Over her years in the system, she got to know it in depth so no one knows better than her the ways of action and the different tricks of the taxation system. This knowledge of the “the other side” guarantees Adv. Hans’s clients that if anyone is able to reduce their liability to a minimum, then it is her.

Professionalism, Caring and Devotion

Alongside her proficiency and experience in the field of both sides, Adv. Hans advocates turning every possible stone for her client, whether if by finding creative angles in every case, or by locating the support for the client’s position in the legal books, or through her extensive connections in order to reach an arrangement on a human basis. Beyond her great professionalism that characterizes her, Adv. Hans advocates an attentive and caring approach, and that is as someone who knows and understands the power of the mechanism and the felling of persecution and trampling it is able to arouse among those who are unfortunate enough to be among its targets.

Prominent Cases

The Black Diamond Affair – Representation of a courier that an indictment was served against him on the charges of 241 incidents of smuggling diamonds for a large and well-known diamond company. An income concealment charge was also attributed to the defendant in the sum of about NIS 1 million for an income he received and was not reported to the tax authority, the defendant was represented in the first phase by other attorneys, pleaded guilty in his investigations in committing the offences attributed to him, and therefore a creativity was needed, that in the end led to an amended indictment that enables a lenient punishment. With the aid of the firm the defendant received one year in practice and a fine in the sum of NIS 60,000 although the diamonds that he had passed were worth millions of dollars.
Convicted of Money Laundering of NIS 74 million and Got Back Luxury Vehicles - Representation of a construction company owner who was accused of money laundering of NIS 74 million in order to conceal income due to encountering financial difficulties. According to the lenient indictment the office has reached, additional charges against the wife and children of the defendant were dropped as NIS 300,000 were confiscated from him in the beginning of the investigation for the benefit of the state. In Return, the state has returned to him three prestigious vehicles that worth millions of shekels.
The Toto Fraud Affair – An affair that exploded in the media after three employees of the Toto were suspected as they were changing results and received by fraud NIS 5 million. In the framework of the indictment, it was determined that one of the detainees changed the results for a short period of time, as in parallel the two other suspects arrived to booths in the center of the country and cashed the winning wages. After that defendant No. 1 brought the results back to the true results, In this affair the firm represents defendants 2 and 3. The office sorted all the investigation material and characterized it by a comprehensive evidences table. Following the showing of the evidences and with the court’s recommendation ongoing hearings are held between the prosecution and defendants 2 and 3. In parallel to the primary discussion another discussion is taking place on the seizure of the money that was made without a temporary seizure order being issued under the Prohibition of the Money Laundering Law.