Dozens of suspects and millions of shekels: Police arrested the head of the Bnei Shlomo crime organization

After a covert investigation lasting several months, dozens of suspects were arrested, including the head of the Southern Crime Organization. Among other things, the suspicion was investigated for establishing a fictitious set of invoices totaling NIS half a billion. During the police raid, safes, cash, jewelry and luxury vehicles were also seized

Dozens of suspects and millions of shekels: Police arrested the head of the Bnei Shlomo crime organization

At the end of a covert investigation that lasted several months earlier this week, police forces carried out a wide-ranging detention wave during which 36 suspects were arrested for interrogation - this was allowed for publication today. Some of the suspects arrested are members of the criminal organization of the son of Shlomo in the south, including Shlomo himself and his wife.

The wave of arrests, carried out as part of an investigation into the Kav Ofek affair, which has been under investigation for several months, has killed hundreds of police, detectives and investigators from the Lachish Central Unit, as well as ISA fighters and special Border Police units, along with customs investigations and Tel Aviv, a diamond unit. At the Ben Gurion Customs and Dogs Unit. The police raided the homes of dozens of suspects from the center, south and Judea and Samaria, and arrested dozens of suspects involved in the case.

This is a case in which it is suspected that crimes were committed against the law for combating crime organizations, the Money Laundering Law, the Value Added Tax Law and the Income Tax Ordinance. Among other things, suspicion was investigated that Bnei Shlomo, the head of a Southern criminal organization, had set up a system of distributing fictitious tax invoices under his head and another suspicious partnership, estimated at about NIS 1 billion.

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The perpetrator Benny Solomon in court (Photo: Benny Ben Simon)

The perpetrator Benny Shlomo extends his detention in the Ashkelon Magistrate's Court. January 29, 2016 (Photo: Benny Ben Simon, Walla system! NEWS)

In addition to the main arrest in the affair - the head of the Bnei Shlomo crime organization, several members of his organization and other targets were arrested. The suspects were arrested for interrogation in the Central Unit of Lachish Area and the Investigations Unit of the Tax Authority, and their detention was extended in court for the continued visible investigation.

The investigation is conducted by a special and joint investigative team, where the best investigators participate in the Central Police and Tax Authority units. During the undercover investigation, investigators penetrated the financial artery of the criminal organization, gathering evidence against the network, which is headed by senior targets and members of the criminal organization, which are believed to have established an extensive financial network to finance their criminal activity.

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In addition to the central arrest in the affair, the head of a recognized criminal organization in the south, several members of his organization were arrested (Photo: police spokeswoman)

Wave of arrests as part of investigation of "Horizon Case" case, January 17, 2020 (Photo: Police spokeswoman, official website)

Attorney Ness Ben Nathan, Attorney of Bnei Shlomo

During the raid of police forces and the wave of arrests, cash and cash and cash checks were seized on millions of shekels, jewelry, several luxury vehicles and more. In addition, as part of the investigation, a court order for a money conversion business, which actually served as an axis for money laundering by the suspects, was closed and assets forfeited tens of millions of shekels were frozen. However, the investigation is still underway and most of its details are still confidential under a prohibition order.

Attorneys for Bnei Shlomo, Advocate Ness Ben Natan and Naama Elhadad said in response to his arrest that "the suspects did not commit any offense and have no connection whatsoever to them. No one has been presented with any evidence linking them and we have no doubt that the affair will end in a faint humiliation. "

Solomon's name recently made headlines after being arrested on suspicion of involvement in an assassination attempt in Ashkelon, and released after the court ruled that police did not provide evidence of his arrest and that the arrest warrant was issued two days before the incident itself. "This is an order issued before the explosion and it was appropriate to check whether the arrest warrant was issued for this incident or for another incident," the court ruled.

During the police raid, safes, large cash, jewelery and luxury vehicles were also seized (Photo: Police spokeswoman)

Wave of arrests as part of investigation of "Horizon Case" case, January 17, 2020 (Photo: Police spokeswoman, official website)

Jewelery and cash captured in police raids (Photo: Police spokeswoman)

Wave of arrests as part of investigation of "Horizon Case" case, January 17, 2020 (Photo: Police spokeswoman, official website)