Three senior members of the Daka crime organization were arrested as part of a Lahav 433 investigation into extortion, protection rackets, and money laundering. A prosecutor's statement was filed against them, according to Israeli media reports.
This morning, three senior leaders of the Daka organized crime family were arrested as part of an investigation by the Lahav 433 anti-corruption unit. The suspects are accused of extortion, threats, collecting protection money, and money laundering. According to the filing of a prosecutor's statement against them, the investigation centers on allegations that the suspects terrorized and coerced several large contracting companies building projects in the Perdes compound, forcing them to pay protection fees and accept services in construction, infrastructure, and security — effectively monopolizing all work on the site and excluding other service providers. The arrests follow a prior bulletin by The Zioneer on June 10, which reported the arrest of three other suspects in an unrelated grenade attack linked to a protection racket in the same region. Those suspects were arrested in a Haifa hideout after a grenade was thrown at a home in Kafr Qara. The current case remains under investigation, and no formal charges have been filed beyond the prosecutor's statement.
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