Israel: 36 members of the organized crime group Abu Latif were detained on suspicion of capturing public orders

About a thousand policemen, border police and VAT investigators held a raid this morning against the criminal clan Abu Latif.

The detentions marked the transition to the open phase of the long -term joint secret investigation of the Israeli police, the tax administration, the State Prosecutor’s Office and the Office to combat the laundering of illegal capital.

According to the press service of the police, the organized crime group Abu Latif, who began its criminal activity with a racket, “roofing” and raider seizures, in recent years has spread its activities to the sphere of state orders, the turnover of which is billions of shekels a year.

The organized crime group used threats to the contractors in order to prevent their participation in various tenders, intimidating large contractors who won tenders in order to force them to conclude contracts with subcontractors and companies acting under the patronage of the organized crime group or its members belonging to its members, the transformation burden for winning contractors through cruel repressive actions against They, after the victory, to make them refuse to do work.

During the operation, cash, property and elite cars for millions of shekels were seized. A search was also carried out in a company belonging to one of the leaders of the organized crime group, through which, according to suspicion, significant funds were laundered from criminal activity.