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Last update - 09:27 03/05/2009
Japan sentences Hasidic Israeli to 8 years in jail after Ecstasy bust
By Yair Ettinger, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Satmar Hasidim, Japan 

A Japanese court sentenced an Israeli to eight years in prison on Friday after convicting him of attempting to smuggle Ecstasy into the country, according to friends of his family.

The Israeli, who was a minor at the time of the crime, is the youngest of three yeshiva students arrested a year ago while attempting to enter Japan with suitcases containing large quantities of Ecstasy pills.

The other two Israelis, Yoel Goldstein and Yaakov Yosef Grinwald, are still waiting to face trial.
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Goldstein, Grinwald and the minor were arrested in April 2008 at Tokyo's Narita International airport after arriving on a flight from Amsterdam. Customs officials found that they were carrying 90,000 Ecstasy pills after suspicions were raised over their large suitcases.

The affair has caused shockwaves in the Satmar Hasidic ultra-orthodox community to which the three men belong.

Two more Satmar Hasidim are suspected of being behind the operation: Haim Roter is believed to have fled to Europe and Ben Zion Miller was arrested in Israel in February.

Police believe Miller worked for an Israeli criminal organization that they suspect is connected to the Abergil family.

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      1.   It was 5 years, not 8 09:39  |  Ken 03/05/09
      2.   Hassidic criminals? 09:59  |  UlfT 03/05/09
      3.   Hashem Yeracheim 10:12  |  Dave 03/05/09
      4.   Don`t deal drugs 10:15  |  maasanova 03/05/09
      5.   Don`t deal ecstasy 10:17  |  maasanova 03/05/09
      6.   8 years to think about their criminal stupidity 11:23  |  PETER SM 03/05/09
      7.   They are no jew, but rabinic cults 12:21  |  Xdorf 03/05/09
      8.   what are they teaching them in the Yeshiva? 14:50  |  SJ 03/05/09
      9.   Always a few bad apples 15:25  |  BDF 03/05/09
      10.   Holocaust all over again!! 15:27  |  Angry Zionist 03/05/09
      11.   There`s a dollar to be made out there! 16:30  |  mhung 03/05/09
      12.   Got What`s Coming To Him 22:43  |  Tim 03/05/09
      13.   Ahh, that`s a shame 23:44  |  Joe 03/05/09
      14.   Evil is Evil 04:07  |  Ogmios 04/05/09
      15.   life or death 05:47  |  peter 04/05/09
      16.   Make E Legal and other drugs 09:28  |  Junnie Verceles 05/05/09
      17.   Worldwide cabal... 10:23  |  Mike 07/05/09
      18.   Hasidiots 12:38  |  Paul 07/05/09
      19.   Israeli Drug Smugglers 14:14  |  D Freeman 07/05/09
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