nd he was certain that he helped Iranian
Jews trying to smuggle their money out of Iran. Leviatan got out cheaply and
was  sentenced  to  30  days'  community  service.  Tal,  who  confessed  to
laundering $10 million, was  sentenced to 52 months' imprisonment. He served
his sentence at Danbury jail in Connecticut but he did not learn his lesson.
When he  was  released, he  joined  a gang, which was captured in the  FBI's
"sting"  operation.  This  time  he  managed to  flee  to  Israel  where  he
apparently remains to this day.

     The gold and diamond industry  has recently  become the favorite of the
drug  barons,  due  to the numerous  possibilities for  laundering which  it
contains. One of the popular  methods is laundering  by means  of trading in
gold. This  is how it works. The drug money is converted into gold, which is
smuggled  to Colombia, from where it is exported  to Milano and used to make
jewelry  which then legitimately returns to 47th Street. "The funniest thing
in  this business," say the investigators, "is that  the jewelry comes  here
under favored import conditions because  the gold seemingly originates  from
Colombia  and  that state possesses  favored terms of  trade with  tile US."
There  are  also other  methods. Drug money  is deposited in the accounts of
diamond merchants as though  it were their profits  and is later transferred
to Colonibia.

     Sophisticated diamond deals are made between various  parties  with the
aiin  of "releasing" large amounts of money on the  side.  Sums of less than
$10,000  are deposited in  various bank accounts,  converted into travelers'
checks and then transported to their final destination.

     But in spite of the ingenuity, undoubtedly one of the most popular  and
successful ways  to launder  money is through Jewish religious institutions,
such as yeshivas  and synagogues. Since the majority of the 47th Street gold
and  diamond merchants are religious  Jews  the process  is made easier. The
Jewish religious institutions  badly need funds. The Colombian  drug traders
can  be  generous. They transfer their drug money as donations, which  go to
the Jewish religious institutions one way and come out by the other way back
to the  donors.  On the way,  the synagogue or yeshiva obtains a respectable
percentage for  its pious  uses.  Everyone is happy,  the  drug  barons  who
launder  their money quickly  and efficiently and  the synagogue or  yeshiva
which makes easy money.

     The first laundering operation  in which a Jewish institute in New York
was involved was exposed  in 1984. A ring  which laundered about $23 million
while  making  a profit of $2 million operated at the  oldest yeshiva in the
city,  Tifereth  Yerushalayim,  located  in  Manhattan. The  laundering  was
performed for the Kali cartel. The contact man was David Va'anunu, mentioned
in the context  of the  Prism  affair, who worked with  the  cartel's  major
launderer, Jose Satro. The yeshiva's representative was a very pious Hassid,
Mendel Goldenberger, who daily received cash from Va'anunu and deposited the
money in the yeshiva's accounts.

     Goldenberger,  who  claimed not to have known the source  of the money,
was convicted of  forging  bank  documents  and  given five years' suspended
imprisonment. Va'anunu was convicted, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment
but released much earlier after he became an informer for the DEA. Later, as
was stated, he  ran into  trouble again and fled  the  US. Nine persons were
convicted in that affair, including Rabbi Israel Eidelman, Vice President of
the  yeshiva  and  some  of  its  dignitaries. Tiferet  Yer-ushalayim  faced
financial  difficulties at that time. It  leaders attempted to  maintain the
students by paying them from the laundered drug profits.

     The phenomenon, incidentally, is  very common among New York Jews. Many
Jewish congregations are dying because their members are leaving the city or
their former neighborhoods. Thus, the congregations are losing their sources
of  income and  facing large debts. In  that situation the road is short for
the  synagogue or yeshiva to  launder drug  money as a pious  duty, since it
means easy money and  lots of  it. "Laundering money is extremely beneficial
to the yeshivas  and other  Jewish religious institutions,"  said  a  source
close to the investigation. "They are in a difficult situation and therefore
they turn a blind eye to the drug problem. They don't ask what the source of
the money is as long as it keeps coming in."

     The attitude of the  pious  Jewish  community,  according  to  the same
source, is: "Drugs  are sold  anyway.  As  long as  it does not harm our own
community  and only  does good for it, it doesn't matter if we benefit  from
drug  trade."  The  role of  the Israelis  is, in  many cases,  to make  the
connection between the  religious  Jewish  communities of  New York  and the
Colombians.

     The  Colombians are more  satisfied with this method of laundering than
with any other because, for political reasons, it is a relatively secure way
of which it could be initially assumed that  it was not going to be forcibly
investigated by the US authorities. Only in July 1990 the situation began to
change.

     The  Federal authorities renewed an investigation  of some Williamsburg
Hassids,  owners  of  jewelry shops  on 47th Street,  who were  suspected of
laundering drug money.  The investigation  focused on the brothers  Naftali,
Naiklosh and Yitzhak  Slilesinger, and on Ya'akov Shlesinger (Naftali's son)
and  Milon Jakloby,  his nephew. The  investigators found evidence of  close
connections between the Slilesingers and the Andonian brothers, members of a
Colombian  family accused  of laundering,  almost  one billion  dollars. The
Shlesingers  were suspected of laundering  money  by  means  of a subsidiary
called Bali,  through checks drawn from the account of "Camp Yereim"  ["Camp
of the Pious]" - a Hassidic summer camp in the Catskills.

     Camp Yereim denies any connection with these checks. On April 7 of this
year,  Rabbi Abraham Lau, a prominent Hassid from  "Magen Abraham" synagogue
in  Los Angeles  was  convicted of  conspiring to launder drug money. Lau is
married to  the  niece  of the  Satmar  Rebbe, Moshe Teitlebaumi, who wields
enormous political influence in New York State.

     Unfortunately,  Lau  told  an  undercover  FBI  agent  about  a "sacred
network"  of  Satmar  Hassids  in   which  other  Orthodox  Jews   had  also
participated. The "sacred network", whose membership was strictly limited to
pious Jews, operated in the 47th Street area in New York and was  capable of
laundering up to $5  million  weekly, thanks to its widespread contacts with
Jewish charitable institutions.

     Unfortunately, law enforcement agents  in  New York do not believe that
the "sacred  network"  and the many  other Jewish laundering  rings have any
sanctity. In the past year the Federal activity concerning Israelis and Jews
on 47th Street has  greatly  increased.  The  investigators  now  employ the
services of many Hebrew translators  since the rings,  even  if composed  of
native   American  Jews,  employ  only  "the   sacred  language"  for  their
operations.

     Aharon Sharir is, undoubtedly, the major Israeli launderer. He was born
in Iraq about 45 years ago, immigrated  to Israel with his family at the age
of one year, graduated from  an Israeli high school, served with distinction
in the army and became  an  expert in fixing delicate mechanical instruments
used to mend gold jewelry.
     In 1979, Sharir came to New York on  a tourist visa with $6,000 in  his
pocket.  He  went  into  the  gold business,  established a small  plant for
manufacturing  gold jewelry  and  did  well. Then,  through another  Israeli
diamond trader, he  discovered  the  laundering business.  Sharir  reached a
laundering activity of about $160,000 per day, six days per week (laundering
is not done on the Sabbath), but  in 1985 his wings were clipped when he was
accused of  having swindled a New York  bank  to the tune  of $3 million. He
quickly returned  the  money and  was sentenced to a  fine and  a  suspended
prison sentence.

     In 1988  Sharir's  laundering activities  reached amazing  heights. His
gold shop on 47tll  Street became one  of the greatest laundering centers in
the  entire  US. "Three times a week,"  Sharir  told the court at one of the
many trials in which he is now testifying, "we received the cash. It used to
arrive in canvas sacks,  in cardboard boxes or in suitcases. Sometimes there
were a million dollars in one shipment."

     Roy Lopez, representing the  Colombian cartels, would arrive from Miami
equipped with a  document sent from Colombia, which contained detailed coded
instructions  about   where  to   send   the  money.  "Even  with  automatic
money-counting  machines  it  was  difficult  to  count  the money,"  Sharir
testified. "It arrived in  bills of 5, 10 and 20 dollars. The bills, most of
which had been  used to sniff cocaine,  had  a  strong odor of coke. A  real
stink. My employees could not stand it.  Every  2-3 hours they had to take a
break, go out for some fresh air, so as not to get ill."

     Sharir's role  was to see to it that the money would be transported out
of the US and arrive in the bank accounts of the Colombian cartels in Panama
and in Colombia. For that purpose he deposited money into his bank accounts,
as though it  was his profits from the shop, purchased assets for the use of
the drug cartels, bought and sold gold at inflated prices from merchants who
were  part   of  the  conspiracy  and  concealed   money   through   various
manipulations.

     Finally, all the money  was turned into checks drawn on the accounts of
Jewish religious institutions. Sharir received from the Colombians 6 percent
of the turnover for his labors. Within  a short period of time he moved with
his family to a luxurious house in Woodmere, on Long Island. He purchased  a
luxury Jaguar  car,  showered  his  wife  Miryam with  expensive jewels  and
donated lavishly to Jewish charities.

     The troubles began  in late 1988. In December his  shop was  raided  by
American  customs  and internal  revenue agents, after they  received notice
from his  banks concerning the volume of his deposits.  They brought dogs to
sniff out drugs, carried  out a  meticulous search  of  the offices and took
away cars  full  of documents. Sharir did no lose his cool. While the agents
were milling around his offices,  he managed to conceal $600,000, which were
in his bank account at the  time and to transfer the money to a safe  place.
Simultaneously,  Sharir  fell  out  with his Colombian operators who claimed
that  he  stole  $26 million  of  their drug money.  Sharir, who denied  the
accusation,  hired  an Israeli  professional investigator, Lihu  Ichilov, to
solve the mystery.  Ichilov soon became Sharir's partner. He flew to Panama,
established  two dummy corporations there, opened bank accounts and improved
the laundering routes.

     Following  the Federal agents' raid on his offices Sharir did not  give
up. Within two weeks  he opened two other offices on 47th Street and resumed
work. When asked  by one of his lawyers how  he had expected  to escape  the
attentions of the law, Sharir replied:  "I changed my  system  and  believed
that now,  with God's  help, I would never be  caught." Sharir's  new system
included Rabbi Yosef Crozet whom  we discussed earlier. Crozer's  big  mouth
brought Sharir  down, and he was arrested  in March 1990. Crozer also led to
Sharir  confessing  to  having  laundered $200  million. His wife Miryam was
arrested together with him. Sharir, under the pressure of the interrogation,
agreed to cooperate in  exchange for his wife's release and the cancellation
of the charges against her. The prosecution agreed.

     It was an extremely good  deal as far as the prosecution was concerned.
For  three  months Sharir  fed the Federal investigators with  most valuable
information  concerning  the  Jewish laundering  industry.  The  information
included names, methods of operation, codes,  and  bank accounts. Sharir led
them to the exposure of what is termed the new "cocaine triangle".

     His  information  led  to  the  incrimination of more  than  35  Jewish
launderers,  the  capture  of  $10  million  and  the  breakup  of  numerous
Jewish-laundering  rings.  Among  others,  Sharir  incriminated the  biggest
laundering shark in  the history of the US, Stephan Scorkia. The information
Scorkia was charged with laundering $300  million, and was sentenced to  660
years' imprisonment.

     Sharir is now enrolled in the US  witness protection program.  He lives
under  an assumed identity,  has been released on bail, travels  under heavy
security between New York, Rhode Island, Arizona and other states, testifies
in criminal trials and goes on.

     His  wife  Miryam divorced him  shortly after  the affair erupted.  She
refuses  to  comment  on the matter  and told the  Daily  News:  "I have  no
intention of talking. I divorced Aharon in order to distance myself from him
and from his friends, and that is exactly what I am doing."

     Sharir  was  directly  responsible  for  the  flight  of  at  least  35
Colombians from the  US  back  to  Colombia. One of the escapees  was  Duvan
Arbolda, one of the Kali cartel's major launderers. Arbolda was charged in a
Manhattan  court  of  laundering  on  a  vast  scale,  following   Sliarir's
testimony. Afler he completes his  testifying,  Sharir  himself  will  stand
trial.

     The prosecution  will agree to a very low sentence, but this  does  not
improve his chances  of survival. "At  present, Aharon Sharir heads the Kali
cartel's wanted list," said an American customs official. Charges have  also
been served against Lihu Ichilov, Sharir's partner. However, Ichilov fled to
Israel on the eve of his trial, in January 199 1. That was the period of the
Gulf  War and the judge, Richard Owen, who tried Ichilov  in absentia, said:
"Mr. Ichilov apparently prefers to face the horror of  Scud missiles falling
on Israel than the American justice system."

     Note 1. The Satmar Hassidic sect  fiercely opposes Zionism. The present
rabbi's uncle and predecessor (the position of  a rabbi among the Hassids is
limited  to  the  members of  "the  sacred  family"), Yoel  Taitelbaum,  had
published  learned  books in which Zionism  was described as an invention of
Satan, Israeli victories  (especially  the  one  in  the Six  Day  War) were
attributed  solely  to the direct help given to the  Israeli army, while the
Holocaust was being "justified" as the Divine punishment of the Jews for the
sin  of some of them becoming Zionists. The present rabbi, although formally
continuing  the teachings of his uncle, has the most amicable relations with
the Israeli government. //

     //Мнение  автора данной  работы сильно отличается от однозначной оценки
других   экспертов  и   сторонников   безоговорочного  осуждения   "мирового
еврейского  криминального заговора".  На девяносто  процентов ряды еврейских
аферистов, жуликов, отмывателей грязных мафиозных  денег до 1998-99-го годов
состояли из Робин Гудов, романтических  искателей приключений и мечтателей о
перераспределении  денег  в  обществе,  где  нет  справедливости  и  правды.
Одержимые пассией "делать добро", вырвать деньги у богатых, у тех, у кого их
слишком  много,  и  отдать  их  бедным  и  обездоленным,  эти  люди  в своем
большинстве  стремились получить мафиозные деньги  для того, чтобы стредства
эти передать на благотворительные  нужды. Это касается не только отмывателей
грязных денег, но  и величайших в истории мошенников, которые по  поддельным
бумагам,  путем хитроумных,  остроумных  махинаций преуспевали  в  получении
путем мошенничества  десятков  миллионов долларов,  чтобы эти деньги  отдать
потом на благотворительные  нужды. На  этом  этапе не существовало  никакого
конспиративного  участия  государства  Израиль  и  еврейской  (в  частности,
израильской) криминальной  мафии.  Однако, на этапе  вмешательства полиции и
раскручивания машины возмездия появлялись израильские мафиози и - в симбиозе
с ними - государство Израиль, которые захватывали львиную долю находящихся в
руках подобных Робин Гудов средств в обмен на помощь и убежище. Как правило,
к уголовному  еврейскому Робин Гуду  на этом этапе приставлялась израильская
шавка,  стукач-надсмотрщик, чаще  всего  сотрудник  Моссада  (в  деле  рабби
Шарира, например, - Ихилов), который держал свою жертву  собачей хваткой уже
до  самого конца. Существует  мнение, что  государство Израиль само выбирало
заранее  своего подельника,  просто он об  этом  не знал.  Следующий  этап -
перевод  уголовных денег  в Израиль  и  (в большинстве случаев) - самого  их
"коллекционера".  И  только  примерно  1998  года  возникло  новое  явление:
моссадовско-мафиозные группы повсюду подменили частных еврейских проходимцев
и  Робин Гудов, взяв  посреднические  операции  отмывания  денег  наркомафии
полностью в свои руки. Это  было сделано для того, чтобы не допускать  в эту
область  людей  со  стороны,  влекомых  собственной,   не  санкционированной
Израилем, инициативой.  Так  как  государство  Израиль  через свою  разведку
занимается этим с  самого начала своего существования, ему не выгодно, чтобы
деятельность частных еврейских уголовников привлекала слишком много внимания
к вовлеченности государства Израиль в деятельность международной наркомафии.
В то же время  Израиль оставил  для  себя  возможность  и далее  прибегать к
услугам американских  евреев  - ювелиров и мелких финансистов  -  для  своих
будущих криминальных операций.  Но даже при  наличии частной, не связанной с
Израилем,  подобной деятельности,  она получает  скрытое  одобрение  и  даже
поддержку со стороны Израиля  в любом случае:  потому  что Израилю  выгодно,
чтобы  еврейские общины богатели, тогда  будет,  кого доить,  и можно  будет
выбивать из еврейских общин в рассеянье больше денег на Израиль.

     Конец дополнения//

     Так  вот,   те  люди  в  странах   Запада,  которые  заинтересованы   в
бесперебойном отмывании грязных денег, уклонении от налогообложения и в том,
чтобы в Израиле не произошло  демократизации,  которая может рано или поздно
вскрыть все  эти  вещи, и составляют то лобби, что  подавляет всякие попытки
признания    западными   демократиями   чудовищной,    фашистско-расистской,
пиратской,  криминальной  природы   современного  израильского  государства;
международный  валютный   фонд,  надправительственная  организация,  которая
обладает  огромной экономической  и политической властью в западных странах,
косвенно  подстёгивает   отмывание  грязных   денег  в   Израиле,   так  как
заинтересована  в  возвращении себе  тех  займов,  которые  эта  организация
предоставляет  развивающимся  странам.  Кроме  того,   в  западных   странах
существует  еврейское лобби, по идеологическим  причинам и по  причине своей
заскорузлой консервативности /вспомним хотя бы бездействие  в  деле спасения
евреев  Европы  от  уничтожения/  не желающее  признать факта  дискриминации
определённых  этнических групп в  Израиле  и  препятствующее  огласке  таких
фактов. Кроме того, это лобби если не контролируется, то, по крайней мере, в
значительной степени  находится под влиянием  тех, кто имеет свою выручку от
преступной   деятельности.   Это   сплочённая,   монолитная   сила,   хорошо
организованная и поэтому результативная; помимо того, после войны  в Израиль
устремились,  косвенно судя не  двум книгам, одну из которых  я просмотрел в
Библиотеце Народовой в