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With weapons drawn in front of children: A gang that robbed hundreds of thousands of virtual currency buyers was caught

According to the indictment, the six members of the gang operated in the north for about 3 months, extorting almost NIS 1 million from their victims.

The six used to offer through a telegram to people to buy coins from them for a low commission.

Those who agreed, arrived at the meeting place and were robbed with severe violence.

"Attach a gun to the chest and hit with kicks and punches"

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Yoav Itiel

Wednesday, 01 December 2021, 08:45 Updated: 08:53

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The State Attorney's Office's cyber department last week filed an indictment against six gang members who specialized in robberies of cryptocurrency buyers.

According to the indictment, the gang operated in the north for about three months and thus robbed its victims of almost a million shekels with their money.

The gang, according to the indictment, consisted of the brothers from Acre, 21-year-old Issa Abu Shenab and 26-year-old brother Musa Abu Shenab, a relative of 26-year-old Mahmoud Abu Shenev from Acre, and 21-year-old Salah Adon from Acre, his cousin. Mahran Hurani, 23, from Haifa, and Hani Rashid, 34, from Jadeida-Makr.

The young men are charged, each according to his share, with aggravated robbery and conspiracy to commit a crime.

According to the suspicion, there were other robberies in which the victims chose not to complain at all.

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Arrest of gang members (Photo: Walla !, Investigation file)

According to the indictment filed by the plaintiff, Adv. Yaela Harel, the gang members used to offer people through the telegram network to buy cryptocurrencies from them for a low fee and below the market price. Those who agreed came to the north of the country to meet them and make the transaction the date of the meeting exchanged cash coins Virtual. actual unsuspecting buyers were robbed of their money threats at gunpoint and violently.

As part of the investigation of the events of the robbery that preceded the arrest, released two researchers cyber department in Telegram dedicated to the sale of virtual coins that they are interested in buying a currency. Following this publication, contact To them one of the gang members, using a fictitious profile and started corresponding with them in the telegram.

The indictment states that Issa Abu Shenab, Salah Adon and Hani Rashid arrived at the meeting place on David Marcus Street in the car whose forks were forged, in order to rob the potential buyer.

Arriving there, Abu Shenab and Adon tried to reach the buyer-policeman's vehicle, wearing gloves and masks and one of them carrying an air pistol, in order to rob him of a sum of NIS 145,000, which according to the agreement was supposed to be exchanged with them.

Innocent buyers were robbed of their money with threats, a drawn gun and severe violence.

Gun of the suspects (Photo: Walla !, investigation file)

When the cops jumped on the two, they tried to escape on foot, but were stopped a few steps away by the combined force of the police. The third tried to escape in the vehicle but was also caught within a short time.

The incident in Haifa was the final act of the investigation, which until then had been covert. The seizure of the gang took place near a playground, with police officers chasing the criminals with weapons drawn. Children playing in the playground near the scene said they saw "soldiers running after someone and shouting at him". Neighbors added that "we peeked out and saw two people with plastic handcuffs on their hands and eyes tied. There was a weapon under the car. The children were afraid to get down later. We were not explained anything. They asked us to go home. We thought it was a security incident because we saw a covered face and green uniform." .

Such a violent armed robbery had succeeded the gang a week earlier on Telem Street in Atlit, near the Gali Atlit school, following which students at the school needed psychological assistance after watching the robbery up close.

A father and son were robbed in the event in question in the amount of 580,000 shekels after the gang members blocked their vehicle and one of the masked men attached a gun to the father's chest.

At the same time, two of the robbers beat the son with kicks and punches and snatched the cash bag from him and then fled in their vehicle quickly.

A closing act for an investigation that was covert.

Moments of arrest (Photo: Walla !, Investigation file)

Two months earlier, the same method robbed NIS 89,000 of a man who had fallen into a trap in the telegram and arrived with his friend to convert the money into cryptocurrencies.

In this case the masked robbers came equipped with a dummy gun.

The indictment also mentions another case that occurred three days earlier, in which Issa, Musa and Mahmoud Abu Shenab committed robbery while wearing masks and equipped with a gun.

During this robbery, ten thousand shekels were stolen.

This, in a meeting they held in Acre with a Haifa resident who arrived with his friend after being tempted to make an offer by telegram.

Simultaneously with the filing of the indictment, the State Attorney's Office requested that the detention of the six be extended until the end of the legal proceedings.

Police have seized four vehicles, a computer and mobile phones of the defendants and if convicted, the prosecution will seek to confiscate them in favor of the state treasury.

Unfortunately, the funds evaporated.

Investigators managed to get their hands on only NIS 200 of all the cash robbed and the victims were left with no compensation on the horizon.

Stabbing scene in Jaffa, this month (Photo: Reuven Castro)

"My clients deny the facts of the indictment, claiming they are innocent," he told Walla!

Advocate Shadi Dabah, representing the defendants in the Abu Shenab family, “At the end of the day the mountain will give birth to a mouse as the police rely on speculation and speculation and there is no direct evidence linking them to what is attributed to them.

We all hope that in the near future we will prove the innocence of my

client. "

Advocate Eli Saban, representing Hani Rashid: "As stated in the indictment, my client is credited with a partnership in two cases and he claims he did not commit or was a partner in any act.

"After examining the material of the investigation, I will give a detailed answer to the facts of the indictment, and this is how we will proceed."

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