Rolling millions into an unfamiliar arena: the prison challenge of the criminal organization from the north - voila! news

On video: Israel Police activity against the Abu Latif crime organization (Israel Police Spokesperson)

In the past decade, the leaders of the Jewish crime organizations were led one after another behind bars after the police managed to gather state witnesses and evidence against them that led to indictments and heavy prison sentences.

In the meantime, the Abu Latif Northern crime organization managed to grow under the radar, which grew to monstrous proportions and managed to generate for its leaders a huge fortune estimated at hundreds of millions of shekels and even more.

Part of the reasons for this was the difficulty in cooperating with complainants who were blackmailed by members of the organization, being an organization based on a clear and organized hierarchy allowed its leaders to evade the arms of the law enforcement system and get richer and richer.

Even after the large wave of arrests of the leaders of the crime organization last month, in a case called "The Black Billion" led by the North District of the police and the imprisonment of dozens of members of the organization, the organization has not yet collapsed and it will take some more time before the police can announce the defeat of the crime organization that for a decade reigns terror over the residents of the north from society Arabic and not only.

Nidal Abu Latif in court (photo: Walla! system, without)

The main area of ​​activity of the Abu Latif organization is protection - blackmailing contractors and business owners.

Involvement in public tenders, takeover of businesses, many incidents of violence and shootings and allegedly involvement in brutal murders in recent years.

Among the 21 detainees in the flagship case of the North District police are senior members of the organization such as Nidal Abu Latif, Khaled Abu Latif, Fadi Ertul, Wasim Ertul, Sharif Ertul, Khaled Aslan, Shadi Ertul, Makram Tanos and also Kafir Lavi - owner of Change from the central region , which allegedly served as a bank for the organization's members.

Now, with the placement of the organization's members in detention centers and prisons throughout the country, tensions are increasing between competing criminal organizations, many of whose members are imprisoned in prisons and maintain coalitions to preserve their activities outside and inside prisons.

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Money seized in the possession of members of the Abu Latif organization last month (photo: Israel Police spokeswoman)

Luxury vehicles confiscated in the raid on the Abu Latif organization (Photo: Israel Police spokeswoman)

"To this day, the main strength of the Abu Latif organization is outside the prisons," says an official in the law enforcement system.

"The small number of the organization's members inside the prison and their criminal pursuits in the northern region only left the organization with a limited influence on what is happening inside the prisons and outside the map of conflicts in the world of crime, which is rising mainly in the southern region and a little in the center. Now we will see if the other organizations will align themselves with Abu Latif's detainees and respect "Their status as outside".

For now, the members of Abu Latif have been placed in the prisons in the northern region, among other things due to their status as life prisoners until the end of the proceedings.

But it is likely that the issue will be required in the prison service due to the strength of the organization's members in the northern region, their familiarity with the Shiv SDF staff who live in northern settlements and some of them with family ties. The dispersal of the organization's members among the prisons in Israel in the coming months is expected to reduce their strength in the prisons and the threats faced To the staff members So far, no incidents have been recorded against prisoners from other organizations and against staff members, but the Shin Bet is closely monitoring the developments.

Despite their great power and weight on the crime map, it is not clear what kind of reception the prisoners belonging to competing criminal organizations are preparing for the members of Abu Latif.

"Most connections are forged inside the prison and what was relevant six months ago outside and inside the prison is not relevant today," explains the source who spoke to Walla!.

"It is possible to see conflicts and pardons forged between the criminal organizations of the Lavia family and Eyal Nagar against the background of the murder of the criminal Bnei Shlomo, another coalition between the organizations of Odeh Kotier and Hariri with the criminal organizations from the Sharon - Dahabesh and Alferon. So into this reality the members of Abu Latif enter and it is necessary to see first of all whether They will remain behind bars and how will they fit into the alliances and conflicts that were created in their wake."

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In the video: Amos Lavi, Eyal Nagar, Yehuda Amar at a meeting in an event hall in Yehud for a forgiveness meeting as part of the parties' efforts to bring about a truce and calm after the killing of the criminal Bnei Shlomo (Rehovot News)

Another front that Abu Latif's members may face inside the prisons are Bedouin crime organizations from the south, who have coalitions with Jewish crime organizations in the south and are currently a rising force inside the prisons due to a high number of prisoners identified with them alongside several Jewish crime organizations, which have been dismantled and imprisoned in recent years.

Against the background of the entry of the senior members of the Abu Latif crime organization and the coalitions being woven between the other crime organizations, the need for the use of solitary confinement for the senior criminals has increased due to the great danger posed by them, based on intelligence gathered by the Shin Bet and the police, all while they are behind bars.

The Abu Latif brothers (photo: documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law, no)

Vasim Ertol, one of the detainees in the Abu Latif case (photo: Walla! system, without)

Advocate Bassel Falah representing the detainees (Photo: Yoav Itiel)

"As the years go by, the Shavas will face larger coalitions, with disturbances involving multiple prisoners and an increase in friction in order to change the balance of living conditions and punishment," estimates the source who spoke to Walla!. into the prisons, and when the Shavas have to deal with one of them - everyone wakes up."

Advocate Bassel Falah, who represents the detainees in the case, responded: "After more than 40 days of detention, the prosecutor's office is expected to decide against which of the detainees an indictment will be filed and for what crimes.

The Shavas are preparing for the placement of the detainees in the detention centers, bearing in mind that the indictment, if filed, will be processed in the Lod District Court. As of today, the detainees associated with what the police call the organization are scattered throughout the detention centers in the northern district of Shavas. As for Nidal, he is placed in the National Segregation Division of the Shavas S.

In the coming days, the picture will become clear, and we will also be able to address the charges, if any."

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