On video: documentation of Moshe Shuval kidnapping the bank employee and blackmailing her to rob the branch (Walla system!)
A 70-year-old man, the suspect in the kidnapping of a bank clerk in Haifa, escaped from custody - and has been missing for about two weeks.
The suspect, Moshe Shovel, was brought to the District Court in Haifa on November 23, after he was detained until the end of the legal proceedings against him and did not meet the conditions of his supervision at a nursing home in Nahariya to which he was released as an alternative to detention about two months ago.
The nursing home suspected that he had sabotaged security cameras and that he was plotting an escape.
The Haifa District Attorney's Office received a warning about the matter, Shuvel was brought to court and there Judge Nitzan Silman ordered that he be held behind bars in a prison again.
The sequence of events since then remains unclear.
Shuval, shortly after the depressing hearing for him, announced that he felt ill, allegedly having staged a heart attack, and the judge ordered that before he was transferred to the detention center, he would be referred to a hospital, where he would be hospitalized under the supervision of the police or the prison service.
Despite the judge's order, the 70-year-old Shuval was left unattended - and disappeared.
His escape from custody was discovered only a few days later, and since last Sunday the Haifa police have been trying to locate him.
A search was conducted at his apartment in Carmel, but he was not found there.
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Moshe Shuval, the suspect in the kidnapping (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
Two days before the hearing, on November 21, at night, Shovel was seen on security cameras of the daycare in Nahariya, together with another resident.
A terrorist trail was recorded on camera facing the entrance gate of the residence, to leave without the knowledge of the staff.
Shortly after the hearing on November 23, the court guard and medical staff informed Judge Nitzan Silman that the detainee should be evacuated for urgent medical treatment.
He ordered that the medics send Shuvel to the Rambam Hospital and that the SBS officials and/or the police supervise him until he is transferred to the detention center after his release from the hospital - but this apparently did not happen.
Moshe Shuval did turn to Rambam, but he escaped from the hospital that same day.
Shovel was arrested in September last year, on suspicion of kidnapping a bank employee, imprisoning her, threatening her and filming her against her will.
Then, according to the suspicion, he attached an explosive device-like object to her stomach, and sent her to the branch of Mizrahi Tefahot Bank on Hanaviyim Street in the city, where she worked, demanding that she rob millions of shekels for him.
The bank manager didn't buy the story, tore the dummy bag from her body and called the police.
The clerk was arrested on the spot, and the police were eventually convinced by the plot she told them, which at first sounded imaginary.
We started a hunt for a trail and he was captured that evening on the way to Tel Aviv.
The scene of the event in Haifa, last year (photo: MDA)
The 70-year-old Shuval is accused of "extremely serious crimes that were planned in advance, with great care and sophistication."
The prosecutor's office mentions that he was charged with kidnapping for extortion, assault, extortion by threats, attempted robbery, indecent act, invasion of privacy, sexual harassment, theft, forgery, impersonating another person and obstruction of justice.
The commander of the Haifa station, Deputy Superintendent Haim Ezard, said that "Haifa police began extensive searches upon learning of the escape of the suspect in question when the concentration of efforts is being carried out on the intelligence operational level. We will do everything possible to locate the suspect and bring him to justice."
No response has yet been received from the prison service.
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