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"Living in hiding - knew he was wanted": new details about the arrest of the number 1 wanted | Israel today

2022-11-17T10:11:46.208Z


A few hours after Yaniv Ben Simon was arrested - the head of the police's operational twinning department sheds light on the raid in a suburb in the city of Johannesburg • "We located his current address together with the local police and it was not an easy activity", he said • He also noted that "there are criminals more who escaped"


"The criminal will be extradited to Israel and will be prosecuted in Case 512": This is what Sub-Superintendent Shmuel Sharvit, head of the police department in the intelligence division, emphasized this morning (Thursday), after the arrest of the Israeli criminal Yaniv Ben Simon, who is defined as "the number one wanted Israeli in South Africa".

"Today at 4 o'clock in the morning there was a difficult entry into the compound," Sharvit described the dramatic arrest.

"Special forces of the local police entered. Yaniv and seven other Israeli criminals were arrested." 

He also stated that "the search is now underway. We want Yaniv ben Simon to be extradited to Israel and prosecuted in Case 512. Yaniv does live in South Africa, but he did things that are also related to Israel. There is an international arrest warrant against Yaniv. At the moment, all of them are also arrested for possession of illegal weapons and explosives and later we will know what else."

The raid in South Africa in which a senior member of the Israeli crime organization was arrested, photo: from Twitter

According to him, the criminal lives in hiding knowing that he is being searched for.

"The man has behaved as requested already in recent years."

He also emphasized that "there are other criminals who escaped. We will eventually come into account with all of them. We located his current address together with the local police and it was not an easy activity."

At the same time, his father-in-law is expected to go to an extension of detention.

"The South Africans told us that for them what is found in the compound is a big deal. It is a fantastic achievement of the intelligence division that was made over time. Currently the extradition order is approved by the South African Ministry of Justice. I assume that he will now fight against it."

In the meantime, Tzachi ben Hamo, deputy head of the organized crime faction in Yahabal in Blade 433, referred to Ben Simon's connection to case 512. Between 2003 and 2006. The extradition request concerns only the offenses he is suspected of in 512. He is charged with the offenses of running a criminal organization, attempted murder in the exhibition grounds and trafficking in large quantities of drugs. In the world, the management of criminal organizations is taken seriously. This is an amazing achievement for the intelligence division."

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Source: israelhayom

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