After the investigation of the well-known businessman and real estate developer from the south this morning (Tuesday) at the Economic Unit (Yalek) at Lahav 433, on suspicion of involvement in the fictitious invoices affair, in which members of a criminal organization were arrested and interrogated - the affair continues to branch out.
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According to a report by Liran Levy on the Ynet website, investigators from the economic unit at Lahav 433 discovered during an investigation that members of a well-known crime family's criminal organization, including someone considered the family's financier, took over a real estate project of a purchasing group in Kiryat Malachi after the contractor went bankrupt.
A Haredim 10 reporter notes that this is a group of buildings in the "Cameroon Neighborhood" - a new neighborhood in the southern city, where Chabad Hasidim live.
According to suspicion, members of the criminal organization allegedly blackmailed more than 35 of the tenants, who were waiting for the project to be completed and the key to be received.
According to suspicion, the Hasidim were allegedly extorted out of about one and a half million shekels.
According to the Ynet report, one of the difficulties in the investigation was collecting testimony from those tenants who were allegedly blackmailed. Usually, normal citizens who encounter criminals for the first time and are blackmailed by them are afraid to testify and cooperate with the police. Despite this, the investigators were able to collect some testimony from several tenants.
"They weren't with the buyers," one of the tenants tells Haredim 10. "It's a purchasing group, and they were with the management company. Indirectly, of course, I was also blackmailed."
The real estate developer from the south was questioned today as part of a serious economic affair, currently being investigated by the National Economic Crime Unit (Yalek) at Lahav 433, for crimes of extortion through threats, money laundering, receiving something by fraud, and other crimes committed using fictitious invoices for criminal organizations.
The entire affair was revealed when Lahav 433 investigators, in a joint operation with Tax Authority investigators, arrested 21 suspects, including businessmen and criminals, on suspicion of their involvement in an affair related to tax evasion, distribution of fictitious invoices, and other tax offenses estimated at half a billion shekels.
The Rishon LeZion Magistrate's Court yesterday once again extended the detention of three key suspects in the case for eight days. The detention of the main suspect in the case was also extended by eight days.
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