Hundreds of millions of shekels, “each time in a suitcase with 1 million to 2 million shekels,” made their way over the past year from a currency exchange business in Jordan to one in central Israel, where the shekels were converted into dollars and returned the same day in a loaded suitcase to Jordan. Investigators with Lahav 433 suspect the laundered funds were intended to finance terrorism.
The investigation, which centers on suspected money laundering involving hundreds of millions of shekels, has grown increasingly complex over the past…
