The Bitcoin trader was eliminated in the quiet colony, the residents were shocked: "Such a thing has never been"

Police claim that the name of the 40-year-old man has been known for past fraud offenses.

"Know that he messed with money, it does not smell good as if the hidden rabbi over the visible," residents said of the victim's business.

Others expressed concern about an increase in the level of violence in the locality: "Scary, this is a crazy escalation"

Yoav Itiel

06/07/2022

Wednesday, 06 July 2022, 15:47 Updated: 16:06

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In the video: Killed in a car explosion at the entrance to Zichron Yaacov (Photo: Yoav Itiel and MDA)

The unusual assassination that took place today (Wednesday) in the heart of Zichron Yaacov, where a local resident was murdered, left the residents stunned.

The killer is a 40-year-old man who traded in bitcoin and is known to police for drug offenses and fraud, dropped off his wife and son the soldier on the street corner around 10am and continued a few dozen meters ahead to the local council parking lot.

Before he could park - there was a loud explosion that shook the quiet colony - and the vehicle caught fire.

"Scary, it's a crazy escalator - a meter near a hiking park, with a playground," said a business owner in the center of the colony.

"Babies are playing there. They say there was someone who detonated the bomb and detonated it when there were no people but I do not trust that."

A nearby cafe owner said that this morning near the office at 07:00, the man who moved to the colony less than a year ago was still sitting there and opened the business, "was in a good mood, talked about plans for the future, wanted to open a deli for the Russian sector." And the explosion was when he returned. "

It exploded, lost control and collided with the Maccabi HMO checkpoint.

The scene of the explosion (Photo: Yoav Itiel)

No one knows exactly what the nature of the business was.

"There were all kinds of cell phone things there. I know the money was involved. I never understood what money is made in the small shop and in such an alley you hide in the tools that people hardly enter," said a nearby business owner. ".

During the Corona period, the man's name came up in connection with an attempted smuggling and fraud amounting to NIS 90 million against the State Treasury.

According to Customs, he is a member of a well-known importer in the field of home appliances, through which he will import about 30,000 liters of alcohol allegedly for the purpose of producing alcohol, but in practice alcohol suitable for the production of intoxicating beverages is imported, 86 times the customs deficit. A total of NIS 2.6 million.

He was arrested then and released, after the tax authority admitted to the acts but not that he had broken the law and he also bound himself and confessed to similar cases of previous imports he committed through a company owned by him and companies of others.

A police source said the murdered man "sells to the police offenses in various areas, including drugs and money."

The investigation was transferred to the Coastal District Central Unit.

The head of the interrogation division at the YMAR, Deputy Router Yoni Hajjaj, arrived at the scene with his men.

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Assassination in Zichron Yaacov: Killed in a vehicle that caught fire near the council building

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The scene of the assassination.

Zichron Yaacov, today (Photo: Yoav Itiel)

Fragments of parts of the car were later found tens of meters from the scene of the explosion.

Police searched for finds in the yards of nearby buildings.

"Such a thing has never been in Zichron Yaacov," he tells Walla!

Major (Res.) Ilan Ashkenazi, 65, a native of the colony and one of the founders' families, "It's very unfortunate." There was nothing left to do.

so sad".

The victim's business (Photo: Yoav Itiel)

"I heard a huge boom and then I saw the Skoda vehicle collide with a pillar and stop," said one eyewitness.

He was joined by a shop owner at the place who said that "the murdered man passed me with the vehicle and from the window said hello, half a minute earlier he had arrived at the parking lot and had not yet had time to park and then the explosion occurred."

"It was very scary," she told Walla!

An Israeli tourist from the United States staying with her relatives in an apartment right next to a car that exploded.

"I was alone at home, my relative went out and passed by minutes earlier. I heard a boom. I was sure it was an attack so I was locked up, then I realized that the tree would immediately go up in flames and that I should get out of there so I went out. It's awful."

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