Israeli attorney general Avichai Mandelblit announced on 26 January 2020 that Bitan would be indicted for "bribery, fraud and breach of trust, as well as money laundering and tax offenses" following a hearing.

He was suspected of received money from businessmen to pay off a massive debt while Deputy Mayor of Rishon LeZion.

[14] On 2 October 2023 Bitan visited Riyadh, Saudi Arabia among a 14-member delegation to attend the Universal Postal Union's extraordinary congress.

[15] On 6 July 2021 Bitan was indicted by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit for seven counts of bribery, money laundering, fraud, breach of trust and tax offenses totaling NIS 715,000.

[16] In 2022 Lea Sonik-Kuperli, a businesswoman and real estate asset manager, was sentenced to seven and a half months in prison after being convicted of bribing Bitan.

[17] According to the indictment, Sonik-Kuperli asked Bitan, who served as chairman of the Subcommittee for Licensing and Planning of the Rishon LeZion Local Committee, to assist in promoting her company's interests related to the arrangement of exceptional usage of public parking lots near the network branches in the city and the payment of betterment levy.

In exchange for Bitan's assistance, Sonik-Kuperli complied with his request and provided him with NIS 40,000 through an intermediary connected to Bitan, in the form of checks made payable to the "Ping Pong Rishon LeZion School for Mini-Football and Soccer" association.