Zeev Rosenstein
Zeev Rosenstein | |
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Born | 1954 (age 69–70) |
Opponent | Abergil Organization |
Zeev Rosenstein (Hebrew: זאב רוזנשטיין; born 1954) is an infamous Israeli drug trafficker.
Rosenstein was born in
Rosenstein began his criminal career in his youth, starting with small break-ins. With the exception of a
On 11 December 2003, a bomb aimed at Rosenstein killed three people and injured 18 others in
In November 2004, after 700,000 ecstasy tablets were seized in a
After exhausting his legal options in Israel, a precedent-setting decision by the Supreme Court of Israel,[3] extradited Rosenstein to the U.S. on 6 March 2006, making him one of very few Israelis to ever be extradited for prosecution in another country, especially the United States.
Rosenstein pleaded not guilty in U.S. court to the distribution of ecstasy and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. In accordance with the extradition treaty between Israel and the U.S., he was returned to Israel to serve his U.S.-imposed sentence in an Israeli prison. As part of his plea agreement in the U.S., he had confessed to having hired assassins to kill rival mafia leaders in Israel, which he had previously denied. As a result, upon his return to Israel he was charged with conspiracy to murder. He reached a plea bargain, and was sentenced to an additional five years in prison.[4]
References
- ^ Hammer, Joshua (23 October 2008). "The International Crooks Now in Power by Joshua Hammer | The New York Review of Books". Nybooks.com. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
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(help) - ^ ISBN 978-0-09-948125-6.
- ^ "חסימת בקשה לא מורשת" (PDF).
- ^ "מסתמן: זאב רוזנשטיין ישתחרר רק בגיל". makorrishon.co.il (in Hebrew). 31 January 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
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