To ease their brother’s sentence: A brother and sister tried to direct a kidnapping from the movies

by time news

Exception: Police arrested a brother and sister after staging a kidnapping incident from the films that included a ransom demand of half a million shekels, in order to try and mitigate the sentence of their brother, who was convicted of smuggling 12 weapons from the Lebanese border under the guise of agricultural work.

The incident began this morning with the receipt of a notice at the police station about the abduction of a man and a demand for a ransom worth about half a million shekels for him. According to the complainant, the abductee’s brother, after midnight, received a WhatsApp message from an unknown phone number, with a picture of his brother handcuffed and his eyes covered with a black cloth and a caption that they must pay half a million shekels for their brother, threatening to contact police or the media. In pieces.

Upon receiving the complaint, many police forces began searches and Northern District Police investigators began collecting findings and investigative actions to locate the abductee. And a note with a demand to pay a ransom worth NIS 1 million for the abductee.

Note with the ransom demand (Photo: Police Spokeswoman)

Forensic investigators rushed to the scene, sampled fingerprints, collected forensic findings and explored the scene when a man suddenly emerged from the bushes barefoot and appeared bruised. Weapons ordered him to get out of his vehicle and put him in their vehicle, tied his hands and covered his eyes and later returned him to the area from which he was abducted, demanding that he take care to bring them half a million NIS.

The abductee was taken to the Katzrin police station and after several investigative actions and after the abductee’s version aroused the suspicion of IDF investigators, it emerged that the abductee fabricated the abduction story with his family so that the court could mitigate his brother, who was arrested and convicted of smuggling 12 weapons from the border. Lebanon.

The kidnapper and his family tried to prove to the court that their brother was blackmailed by senior criminal elements and that is the reason he committed the smuggling and therefore his sentence should be commuted. The abductee along with his sister suspected of aiding him were arrested on suspicion of delivering a false statement confessing evidence and attempting to influence a judicial proceeding and their detention was extended until next Friday in the Magistrate’s Court in Kiryat Shmona.

Following the false report of abduction, an emergency procedure was initiated due to fear for human life. Police forces were rushed to search for the “kidnapper” and wasted valuable time of the security forces and the police in addition to filing an indictment to ask the prosecution to file a civil lawsuit.

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