After about six and a half years, the judges of the Tel Aviv District Court, Gilia Ravid, Shai Yaniv and Yaron Levy, will today (Tuesday) give the verdict in one of the most serious cases in the history of Israeli crime - case 512. Indictments were filed against some of the heads of criminal organizations - Including Yitzhak Abergil, Avi Rohan and Moti Hussein - and 15 other defendants, in a series of offenses in Israel and abroad in the areas of serious and organized crime, including violence and drugs.
The indictment states that in the years 2006-2002, a criminal organization from an institution in Israel and around the world headed by Yitzhak Abergil operated, in a unique structure that includes dozens of managers and soldiers who organized into criminal groups specializing in various criminal areas, from the most severe to criminal law.
The groups have weakened different territories and areas of practice in an orderly hierarchy, and in cooperation between them, with a common goal that is mainly to take over the criminal world in Israel.
All this while waging a bloody war of attrition against those they have defined as their enemies.
The culmination of this war was apparently the explosion of an explosive device designed to injure Zeev Rosenstein, a bomb that claimed the lives of three innocent people - the late Naftali Meged, the late Rahamim Tzruya and the late Moshe Mizrahi - and injured dozens of innocent people.
The top of crime from Parshat 512, Photo: Yossi Zeliger, Gideon Markovich, Yehoshua Yosef, Oren Ben Hakon
Huge deals
Along with the serious violent offenses, according to the indictment, the organization also sent its arms to huge and large-scale drug offenses, in Israel and in many different countries around the world.
According to the suspicion, the drug arm of the organization also operated in an organized, hierarchical, systematic and professional manner, yielding huge profits that were used by the organization to intensify and realize its murderous goals.
Among other things, it was alleged that in March 2002, the defendants agreed to transfer about 800 kg of cocaine from Peru to Canada. In December 2002, the drugs arrived in Canada and at least 460 kg of cocaine were sold, worth more than NIS 32 million.
One of the charges relates to tax evasion offenses as part of their drug dealing.
According to the indictment, the scope of the transactions was more than NIS 225 million.
Over the years, Parsha 512 has been accompanied and managed by a team of attorneys from two districts, headed by Adv. Nissim Mirom from the Tel Aviv District Attorney's Office.
Dozens of prosecution witnesses were heard during the trial, including five state witnesses, and thousands of exhibits were submitted, mainly wiretapping conversations, between members of the organization.
Among the main defendants in the case - Yitzhak Abergil, who according to the indictment was the head of the criminal organization, and Avi Rohan who was the head of a criminal group that was a member of Abergil's criminal organization.
Meir, Abergil's older brother, directed and oversaw the organization's criminal activities and worked to form coalitions with various criminal groups.
He pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal in an amended indictment to the offense of conspiracy to commit a crime for his part in various violent incidents.
He was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison.
Another defendant, Moti Hussein, served as a violent executioner and Abergil's confidant and was personally close to him.
Hussein admitted and was convicted in a plea deal that he conspired with Abergel and others in order to cause the death of David Bitton ("Daydona") by way of "Little Red Riding Hood."