Ofer has come under fire in Israel for evading taxes by moving to London,[24] for evading a penalty fee of 100 million US dollars to the state of Israel as the controlling shareholder of Israel Corporation,[25] for pollution from his chemical factories,[26][27] and for his lavish lifestyle.[28][29] In 2014, he allegedly paid Israeli espionage company Black Cube to track and eventually manipulate and exploit secretive information on the Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid and other government officials in a bid to influence tax policy.[30]