In recent weeks, a covert investigation has been conducted by a task force in the National Unit for the Fight Against Economic Crime (YALAK) at Lahav 433 against suspects from the bakri crime organization for offenses of extortion by threats, money laundering, VAT, and income tax offenses.
According to suspicion, during the past two years, the suspects instilled fear, extorted victims by threats for the purpose of extorting money while committing tax offenses and distributing fictitious invoices in the scope of millions of shekels.
This morning, the National Unit for the Fight Against Economic Crime at Lahav 433 launched an overt investigation in cooperation with the Investigations Unit of Customs and VAT Haifa at the tax authority, the Authority for the Prohibition of money laundering, and with the accompaniment of the Northern District Attorney’s Office, and arrested 7 suspects, including senior members of the Bakri crime organization.
Today, 05.01.26, YALAK officers, along with Border Police fighters, Matpat’a fighters, and detectives from the Prisons Service’s ‘Dror’ unit, arrested and detained 7 suspects who were brought for investigation at Lahav 433. At the end of the investigation, they will be brought for an extension of detention hearing at the Magistrate’s Court in Nazareth.