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The police arrested five suspects of importing weapon parts from abroad through toy clearance to Israel. According to the suspicion, the weapon parts were hidden inside shipments of toys that were imported to Israel via air shipments from two different countries in recent months.
The police monitored several shipments in which the weapon parts were disguised. Rishon Lezion Magistrates' Court The six-day arrest of two suspects, residents of East Jerusalem. Three other suspects were released under restrictive conditions at the end of an investigation.
As part of an undercover investigation that began in cooperation between the Etgar unit in Lahab 433 and the Center for National Diagnostics at the Tax Authority and the customs inspectors in Israel, it was suspected that several shipments had arrived Packages including objects that are supposed to be weapon parts that are embedded in clearance in various toys.
In the Lahav 433 Challenge Unit, they recently conducted an undercover investigation together with enforcement agencies from various countries around the world, "about the importation of AML through toy shipments", and on several occasions tracked the toy shipments that were imported to Israel. Lahav 433 investigators began examining the items together with the forensics division Indeed, there was a suspicion of the importation of Amlach through shipment.
As the investigation progressed, the officers of the Etgar unit were able to track down the suspects of smuggling and donate them.
When last night, (Tuesday) with the transition to an open investigation, dozens of officers from Etgar Unit and Unit 33 (the Gideons) from Lahab 433 raided the houses of the suspects and made arrests and searches in their homes.
Thwarting attempts to smuggle illegal drugs into Israel have focused in the past year mainly on Israel's borders - Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan, but this time it is a smuggling attempt in the form of shipments via air mail.
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