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The head of the well-known criminal organization Eran Haya was arrested last week in Malaysia on suspicion of using crypto - this is what Walla learned today (Sunday)! From the caveat factor in the details. Haya's arrest follows the arrest of Shalom Avitan in Malaysia, who is associated with Mosley's criminal organization. According to the suspicion, Avitan came to the country in Southeast Asia to assassinate Haya, and this against the background of the conflict between the organizations.
After Avitan's arrest about a week ago, the local police arrested 15 more suspects, whom they linked to him. Their sons, a married couple aged 40 and 42, from whom Avitan is suspected to have purchased weapons using cryptocurrency, and an additional man who drove him.
The Inspector General of the Malaysian Police, Tan Sri Razrodin Hussein, said that the arrests were made during the extensive manhunt for Avitan's accomplices, which has been going on for the past few days while the police are trying to understand the motive behind their organization. He noted that some of the arrests carried out in various places in the capital Kuala Lumpur and in the state of Johor, which is part of the Federation of Malaysia, were based on intelligence that included information from the public.
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In addition, a dedicated unit for combating cryptographic crime contributed to the investigation, because according to him the occupation of some of the suspects included such currencies. The police chief said that after the arrest of Avitan and the three who helped him,
the arrests of six others were added, including four men and two women aged 25-41.
Six more people were arrested later, including two Turkish citizens aged 29-40, a 39-year-old Georgian man and three locals aged 32-60. The hearings to extend the detention of the additional suspects by 7 more days began yesterday and continue today.
In Israel there is still no indication which of the detainees is Israeli, with the exception of Avitan. Malaysian police say that the investigation is ongoing and the focus is on uncovering the motive behind the organization. Although it seems that the Malaysian police have already realized that this is a criminal organization, the reference to him in the local media remains "the Israeli spy Avitan". The police commissioner repeated and stated that Avitan entered the country during Ramadan, and that "he may have planned an attack during the Eid al-Fitr celebrations." He returned and said that "the suspect gave the excuse that he wanted to eliminate the leader of a rival crime family, but we cannot easily accept that. As I said, the suspect could pose a risk to our leaders, foreign diplomats and even leaders of Hamas," he said.
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