This wasn’t the first news about this.
Back on July 28th, 2009, Haaretz.com reported:
Israel okays extradition of suspected Israeli mob kingpins to U.S.
Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday approved the state’s request to extradite senior mob figures Yitzhak and Meir Abergil to the United States as per a criminal indictment that was served against them last year. The Abergils are the subject of a racketeering investigation.
Israeli authorities will also extradite three additional suspected criminals – Sason Barashi, Moshe Malul, and Yisrael Ozifa – implicated in the Abergil investigation.
Prosecutors allege that the Abergils conspired with Malul to arrange for the murder of a known drug dealer, Sami Atias, in Los Angeles. The Abergil brothers are also alleged to have extorted money from Chai Vaknin and his brother, Asi Vaknin, a former partner in the Roberto modeling agency, in a scheme to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars embezzled from a bank.
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American authorities allege that Asi Vaknin lost upwards of one million dollars in failed stock investments.