State prosecutors plan to indict 12 members of the Abu Latif crime family, police say in a statement.
The suspects were arrested in late February during a large-scale police raid following a years-long undercover investigation into the crime ring’s takeover of tenders for various contract jobs. The operation led to 36 arrests, but only 12 of the detainees stand to face charges.
According to a police spokesman, the suspects reportedly used the crime clan’s fearsome reputation to threaten and extort potential competitors in order to monopolize tenders issued by state bodies, government ministries and local authorities.
The group pocketed hundreds of millions of shekels through the illegally acquired tenders, most related to infrastructure and construction, in Nesher, Netanya, Rishon Lezion, Yarka, Jadeidi-Makr, and other locales throughout northern Israel.
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