Money laundering suspects kept money in washing machine

Lahav 433 cybercrime investigators and Internal Revenue Service inspectors searched the homes of suspected money launderers on March 12 and found cash hidden in a washing machine in one of them.

During the operation, two men and one woman were detained, suspected of laundering capital in cryptocurrency and violating tax laws in the amount of tens of millions of shekels for a certain criminal group.

The investigation into this case was conducted in secret for several months. Investigators have tracked down three main suspects – all of them between 25 and 30 years old. They worked for a criminal structure, providing it with services for storing cryptocurrency in digital wallets to hide income from the tax service and launder capital.

On March 12, the investigation went into open mode: searches and arrests were carried out. The police managed to discover and seize cryptocurrency worth 14 million shekels. A safe containing hundreds of thousands of shekels in cash and wads of bills were also found in the washing machine.

The police intend to complete the interrogation in order to decide whether to go to court to extend the detention of the suspects.