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Mobster Asi Abutbul suspected in 2008 car-bomb killing of attorney

JUNE 30, 2015 03:32

One of Israel’s most well-known organized crime figures, already serving a 13-year sentence for a series of other charges, is now suspected of being involved in the 2008 murder of a prominent defense attorney who was killed in a car bombing.

On Monday, Asi Abutbul, once the head of one of the country’s most powerful organized crime families, was brought before the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court, where his remand was extended for nine days, as new evidence allegedly links him to the murder that emerged as part of Case 512, which saw the arrest of Abutbul and dozens of other suspects – including several organized crime heads – for a litany of crimes including murder, drug trafficking and money laundering. The police have recruited a number of state witnesses in the case, including senior associates of the crime bosses arrested.

Abutbul has long been a person of interest in the murder.

On the night of June 11, 2008, Yoram Haham, a 53-year-old father of four was driving on Yigal Alon Street near the Nokia stadium in Tel Aviv when a bomb exploded inside his SUV. Haham died at the scene and police believe the blast was detonated remotely, possibly by assailants who were following the attorney.

Haham had represented Abutbul in his organized crime trial, but was fired by the mob boss not long before his death.

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