The head of the Hariri crime family was arrested on suspicion of extortion by threats

The head of the crime family was arrested yesterday in a police operation.

He is suspected of threatening winners of land tenders in the Taibeh area and persuading them to cancel the win or alternatively pay him hundreds of thousands of shekels for the land.

About two months ago, the police launched an arrest operation, so the suspect fled.

Yesterday he turned himself in to the police

Shlomi Heller

27/02/2022

Sunday, 27 February 2022, 10:21 Updated: 10:53

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In the video: Operation to arrest one of the heads of the Hariri family on suspicion of extortion and threats (Photo: Israel Police)

Police last night (Saturday) arrested the head of the Hariri crime family on suspicion of extortion threats.

About two months ago, police arrested five suspects in the family, but Hariri himself has fled and has been hiding ever since.

Last night at the end of a police operation he turned himself in.

Hariri is suspected of plotting with his family to win land tenders in the Taibeh area in 2020-2018 and threatening to cancel the win or, alternatively, to pay him hundreds of thousands of shekels for the land, claiming that it belongs to him.

He is suspected of extortion, money laundering, conspiracy to commit a crime and violation of a legal provision.

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From the arrest operation (Photo: Israel Police Spokeswoman)

After the five were arrested about two months ago, investigators were able to track the money transfers between the blackmailers and the blackmailers and reach out to the winners from Arab society while collecting evidence, which shows that due to fear for their lives, some winners canceled the tender for "life threatening". Who paid.

Some were also forced to pay sponsorship fees amounting to hundreds of thousands of shekels to the suspects following appeals and threats from criminal elements from the Hariri family, who spoke out against the winners with threatening statements such as: "We will see you build on the ground."

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