‘Absconding Israeli drug dealer is back home’

PANAJI - Israeli drug dealer Yaniv Benaim alias Atala, who jumped bail in Goa in June, has returned to his country, according to popular Israeli news website www.ynet.com.

Atala is one of the main cogs in the police-politician drug nexus, in which state home minister Ravi Naik’s son Roy is linked, according to a witness in the drug mafia case.

The website, quoting friends of Atala, said he was last seen near his home in Rishon LeZion, a town located a few kilometres from capital Tel Aviv.

The report on the website also states that the drug dealer told a friend in his hometown that he entered Israel a few days after jumping bail.

“Indian authorities had reported in the last few weeks that Yaniv Ben Naaim was missing, but the Israeli drug dealer was in fact on his way to Israel and he now hides in Rishon Letzion, his home town,” www.ynet.com stated.

Atala was arrested in March after his Swedish girlfriend Lucky Farmhouse, who is a model, uploaded videos of him boasting of his links to senior policemen and politicians on www.youtube.com.

Seven policemen have been arrested for being a part of the narcotics mafia in the state.