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The senior investigator suspects: "If you don't talk, your wife will end up with Abu Kabir" - Walla! news

2020-01-21T17:58:06.993Z


A defendant in the drug smuggling case in Al Al claimed that a police investigator had threatened him with arresting his wife, so he sought to disqualify the results of the investigation in which he admitted suspicion of him. The investigator argued that this was not a threat - and that ...


Senior investigator suspects: "If you do not speak, your wife will finish Abu Kabir"

A defendant in the drug smuggling case in Al Al claimed that a police investigator had threatened him with arresting his wife, so he sought to disqualify the results of the investigation in which he admitted suspicion of him. The investigator claimed that it was not a threat - and that he just wanted to "explain to him his wife's condition, which is the one that complicated her." This week, the court ruled that the admission was admissible

Senior investigator suspects: "If you do not speak, your wife will finish Abu Kabir"

Photo: Courtesy of a corporation here, edited by Tomer Levy

"Start talking, why or not, your wife ends up in Abu Kabir today." This is how a senior investigator commented on one of the investigators in the drug smuggling case in El Al - who subsequently broke down and admitted suspicions against him. The investigator argued in court that this was not a threat, and the court accepted it and ruled that his confession was admissible.

The cocaine smuggling affair on Elel planes exploded on November 26, 2018. According to the indictment filed by the Tel Aviv (Criminal) District Attorney, delinquents and senior airline members conspired to import over 150 kilos of cocaine into Israel from Johannesburg, worth tens of millions.

The investigation was conducted by the National Crime and International Crime Investigation Unit (LAB) in Lahav 433. The head of the investigation team was Chief of Staff Lior Rice. He was subordinate to a paid Mum Shum - the head of the organized crime and international crime party at the IDF - who personally took part in investigations into the case.

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"Incorrect Investigation Method." Extension of detention for suspects in the case (Photo: Avi Cohen)

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One of the defendants, Asi bin Abu, was used by the prosecutor's office in one of the smuggling cases, as well as another attempt to escape. Following the indictment, Ben Abu claimed that during his interrogation, a paid senior officer threatened to arrest his wife for exerting pressure on him. As a result, Ben Abu asked the Tel Aviv District Court to exclude his testimony from the same investigation, alleging that the pressure exerted on him was unlawful, and as a result Thus, his admission was not "free and voluntary" - as the law requires. According to him, the investigators "extorted him by applying unfair mental pressure, by threats that if he did not cooperate, his wife and children would be arrested immediately."

In the last month's hearings in Tel Aviv District Court, it was revealed that Ben Abu's wife was detained for interrogation as early as the first day of the investigation, November 26, but was released on restrictive terms without being arrested. On December 6, she was summoned for further investigation, in which she admitted - after being presented with police wiretaps - that she knew of her husband's actions. According to the law, a spouse cannot be required to testify against his partner, but the investigative team decided to use her testimony in a different way: to take her into her husband's interrogation room for a confrontation.

At that time, Ben Abu was in the midst of an intense day of exploration. At the beginning, at nine thirty in the morning, he complained of fatigue. "I remember something like that he said, not letting him sleep in a detention cell, was traveling in early posts," testified investigator Yossi Alcarif, who was conducting his investigation. He added that "these are not things that depend on us as an investigative unit." In all, Ben Abu's interrogation lasted 16 hours that day, apart from brief breaks in the toilet and cigarette. The turning point in the investigation was the confrontation with his wife.

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Head of Organized and International Crime Party at IDF. Moomi Meshulam (Photo: Moti Kimhi, Haaretz)

Momi Meshulam (Photo: Moti Kimchi, Haaretz, official website)

The confrontation lasted only a few minutes, during which the woman repeated the essentials she said to her investigators. Immediately after the confrontation, the investigators, and especially the PA, began to exert pressure on Ben Abu. Sentences such as "Do you call yourself a man? At the bottom of the bottom you came, you bring your wife, "and" Do you love her? You girls, do you love, soul? Do you hurt that she is here? "But the most problematic sentence was:" Sit here, start talking, why or not, she ends up in Abu Kabir today. "

This is a serious statement. Detention, by law, cannot be a means of pressure - and certainly not another person's detention. Although there is no dispute that this was said, as the entire investigation was documented, the MEC Shalom claimed that he did not create a condition between Ben Abu's investigation and his wife's arrest. In addition, Meshulam claimed that the wife's arrest was at issue because of the suspicions against her.

"We did not change things," Mashulam argued when questioned by Ben Abu's defense attorney, Attorney Sunny Shakis. "He was told, 'Sir, she will go to Abu Kabir.' Even one of the researchers told him 'Give the version, I want to hear the version from you. "Now, there is a whole transcript, even if they took one paragraph from the transcript, take it out of context." He later claimed that he did not threaten Ben Abu, but that it was important for him to "explain to Essie what her situation is. , What is its status. I also said that, incidentally, that he was the one who complicated it, and would understand the meaning. "

The impact on the investigation was immediate. Blade offices 433 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Blade 433 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Attorney Sunny Shakespeare (Photo: Ofir Harel)

The impact on the investigation was immediate. Ben Abu, who until then had retained most of the silence right, gave the investigators a version in which he framed himself. "Please confirm that he asks you several times, 'What's up with my wife? Is she releasing? What's up with my wife? Is she releasing?' "What he told me was that he wanted to give her a hug," he replied. In the end, the woman was not arrested and not indicted.

This week, Judge Mordechai Levy decided not to reject Ben Abu's confession. "After examining the evidence regarding the circumstances of the confession, and the relevant parties' arguments and rulings, I came to the conclusion that the confession of the accused 6 (Ben Abu) was free and voluntary, so it is admissible," the judge wrote.

Prime Minister Mumulam has become a well-known name since he headed the team that investigated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Also in the context of PM's files, allegations of exerting undue pressure on interrogators were raised, but not personally. According to allegations, Lahav 433 investigators brought into the interrogation room a woman who was asked about her relationship with an object, solely to pressure him to become a state witness - as it did weeks later.

Attorney Shakespeare told Walla! NEWS that "Threatening to question his wife's arrest is an unfair measure of pressure, and constitutes an improper method of investigation that undermines the rights of interrogators. We are sorry that these are the investigative methods used today. "

The Israeli police said: "The court said its case, rejected the allegations made in the minor trial and held that the suspect's investigation was free and voluntary and therefore admissible. We will further add that the investigation was conducted thoroughly and professionally, based on evidence and professional considerations and in accordance with the law alone. "Due to the professional activity of the investigative team, a network has been exposed for a period of time to commit serious offenses of importing dangerous cocaine drugs from South Africa to Israel. The serious indictments filed so far speak for themselves."

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