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KUALA LUMPUR, March 31 — Israeli news site Mako reported that the 36-year-old Israeli who was arrested in Kuala Lumpur on March 27, after being discovered in possession of six pistols and 200 bullets, is believed to be a gangster in a project to assassinate an individual named Eran Haya. who is believed to be the head of a crime family.
The man, who has recently been in police custody, is believed to be a member of the criminal ring of relatives of the Musli brothers and may have entered Malaysia due to a dispute between the two rival groups, the Times of Israel news site also reported.
Several Hebrew-language media outlets later learned of the suspect as Shalom Avitan, an associate of the Musli brothers’ crime family.
“The two unions have been embroiled in a violent dispute for months,” The Times of Israel reported yesterday.
The Israeli newspaper also claimed that the man’s home in Tel Aviv had been the target of several grenade attacks carried out by Haya’s men while he was in Malaysia, according to the informal Channel 12 news channel.
The suspect was arrested two weeks after entering Malaysia through Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) on March 12.
At a press conference yesterday, Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said police had not ruled out the option that the man could simply be a member of Israeli intelligence, the suspect telling the government that he had entered Malaysia to hunt down another Israeli. A circle of relatives disputes.
Three Malaysians, in addition to a married couple, were arrested and held in custody for seven days on suspicion of supplying weapons and serving as motive force for the Israeli suspect, Razarudin told ReutersArray.
In 2018, a Palestinian scientist was shot dead in Kuala Lumpur by two unidentified men in a killing that Hamas said was carried out through Israel’s Mossad intelligence service. Israel has denied the allegations.