Police arrested five suspects yesterday in a raid, including an accountant, on suspicion of establishing shell companies through which they allegedly laundered approximately 800 million shekels for the Bakri crime organization. The investigation began following activity in Nazareth, where police noticed a package containing cash worth about 400,000 shekels being thrown from a window. The five suspects, residents of Nazareth, Ashkelon and the settlement of Timrat in the Jezreel Valley, were arrested after the investigation became public. During the police raid, six vehicles were seized - along with bank accounts and real estate assets worth tens of millions of shekels.

