Operation 216: Indictments against 45 Arms and Drugs Arrested in Extensive Operation in 22 Jewish and Arab Localities • View Documentation

Israel Police End Investigation 216:  Two charges were filed this morning (Thursday) by the Central District Attorney's Office against 45 defendants from around the country who were discriminated against by a secret agent who recruited Israeli police from the crime world. The defendants are charged, each defendant in accordance with his share, with arms trafficking, carrying weapons and drug trafficking. In addition, a record of the agent that led to the arrest of more than 60 suspects in the case, along with one of the suspects, was released as the two examine the range of remote control operation to the explosive device operating system. 

Operation 216: Documenting a police agent in a deal to purchase a sabotage baggage // Photo: Israel Police

Attorneys Naama Thor Ze'evi and Tomer Steinberg who filed the indictment referred to success: "This is an exceptional case, the fruit of strenuous work, resource allocation and collaboration between a number of law enforcement agencies. A courageous agent was employed as part of the investigation, which was able to gather evidence to commit criminal offenses. Organized throughout the country. As a result of the efforts of law enforcement agencies, there are currently fewer weapons, fewer explosives and fewer pounds of dangerous drugs on the streets and the contribution to public safety is tremendous. "

As mentioned earlier this morning, the Israeli police are expected to complete the visible phase of Operation 216. As part of the operation, an influential delinquent and former senior official, by police officers of a central police unit, persuaded to cross the line and become a clandestine agent among the influential layer of illegal arms dealers, terrorists and drug lords.

At the end of just a week, the investigation phase was completed, which included dozens of charged sessions in the interrogation rooms, between the agent and his former friends, whom he framed in arms deals, explosives and drugs. The operation was made possible by the former offender becoming a secret agent and his security through a police officer who also became a secret agent.

The Israeli Police Intelligence Achievement in the groundbreaking operation took place when the former offender, a well-known and significant figure in the offender, a member of the Arab society, was persuaded by intelligence agencies of the Central Unit to become a secret agent in the Israeli police mission to combat Jewish sector crime and the sector. .

The arrests that took place last month included a wide-ranging attack on intelligence targets across the country. In addition, police operations have been budgeted at a cost of millions of shekels and included collecting evidence against over 60 influential figures in the world of illegal weapons, drugs and crime organizations in the Jewish and Arab sectors.

Operation 216: Police fight against firearms, explosives and cocaine trafficking // Photo: Police spokesmen

The agent purchased at documented meetings with influential crime officials from across the country, weapons, sabotage and drugs worth millions of shekels, while gathering evidence against dozens of them. During the operation, the shopping agent purchased five M-16 assault rifles, three Kalashnikov assault rifles, four pistols and three explosives, as well as more than ten kilograms of cocaine and over one kilogram of heroin. Top one kilogram of cocaine and two guns.

The agent was identified as a candidate for intelligence operation over a year ago by the intelligence unit in the Central Unit. After examining its suitability, an operating agreement was signed with him and it was launched to carry out arms and drug deals with figures well known to him from his past as active in the world of drug and arms crime. The agent's status in the world of crime, and being a well-known figure among many offenders from all over the country, opened many doors to influential figures in the world of crime in Israel, leading to the success of the operation. The complexity of the operation, the variety of intelligence targets that were attacked, and the volume of transactions led to the introduction of the agent into the witness protection program in the witness protection authority at the Ministry of Public Security.

During the transactions, both agents were dispatched as part of the documented sessions for offenders. The action took place when the officer-in-law drove the agent and waited in the vehicle nearby until he returned it at the end of the transaction. In one of the transactions, the agent was sent to an influential intelligence target in the field of explosives and met him in the Jerusalem area. The agent purchased a powerful pot snapped charger with a wireless operating system, with the suspect demonstrating to the agent the operating range of the charger's remote control.

The Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court issued a prohibition order on every individual that could lead to the identification of the agent for 90 days, and an additional prohibition on any detail that could lead to the identification of a 195 fighter known as "Max" (his wife) or his children, for 30 days .