Sergei Yagudin is a licensed private investigator in Israel, working since 2004 and holding private investigator license no. 100209001. He runs the investigation firm Israel Background and is the car owner in proceedings brought against him by Bank Mizrahi Tefahot and Mizrahi Tefahot Leasing. This archive, mizrahi-tefahot-v-yagudin.org, documents those proceedings from his side, on the basis of the documents.
Who Sergei Yagudin is
Yagudin works in private investigation and information gathering, including surveillance, undercover investigations and complex cases in Israel and abroad. Anyone searching for a "private investigator in Israel" who finds his name will see here the other side of that work: an investigator who checks the documents even when he is the party in the file.
He represents himself. He runs several parallel proceedings, at the Execution Office (Israel’s civil debt-enforcement authority) and in the courts, and builds every argument from a document: a delivery confirmation, a border entry and exit report, a debt ledger, a decision.
His connection to the case
In 2021 Yagudin took a car loan from Igud Leasing, which became part of Mizrahi Tefahot when Bank Igud merged into it. He says that after the merger the loan could not be located and his attempts to pay it off went unanswered. A promissory-note file, 506468-12-24, was opened against him at the Netanya Execution Office, and a vehicle-pledge file, 515509-06-24, in Haifa. The car was sold at auction in October 2026.
In some proceedings registrars have already ruled in his favour, for example by finding that on the day a warning was reported as handed to him he was outside Israel. Others continue. The articles under The Case and Collection & Enforcement follow each step.
How this archive works
Every claim here is worded as a claim, and every fact rests on a document. Lawyers and office-holders are not named; the story is the bank’s conduct. Full redacted texts of decisions are published on the investigation site mizrahi-tfahot-case.com, and neutral case-law records on israel-bank-rulings.org.
Contact
Sergei Yagudin’s investigation firm: israelbackground.com, email office@israelbackground.com, phone +972-50-972-1597. Messages about the archive, including responses from the other side, will be published in full.
Questions people ask
Who is Sergei Yagudin?
A licensed private investigator in Israel, working since 2004, who runs the firm Israel Background and is the car owner in proceedings brought by Bank Mizrahi Tefahot and Mizrahi Tefahot Leasing.
Is Sergei Yagudin a licensed private investigator?
Yes. He holds Israeli private investigator license no. 100209001 and has worked since 2004.
What is the connection between Sergei Yagudin and Mizrahi Tefahot?
He is the debtor in Execution Office files opened by Mizrahi Tefahot Leasing over a 2021 car loan, and he contests them. This archive documents the files.
How do I contact private investigator Sergei Yagudin?
Through israelbackground.com, by email at office@israelbackground.com or by phone on +972-50-972-1597.
Who writes this archive?
It is written and edited from the documents held by Sergei Yagudin, with the assistance of artificial intelligence, and checked before each publication.
Responses
A written request for comment on the matters described here will be sent to the other side. Any response received will be published here in full, promptly.
Sources
- Private investigator license no. 100209001.Personal document.
- Proceeding documents in files 506468-12-24 and 515509-06-24.Proceeding documents; see the articles in the archive sections.
Artificial intelligence assisted in drafting this text. The content was checked and approved before publication. Nothing here is legal advice.