El Al exec who ‘thought he was smuggling gold’ from South Africa gets 12-year cocaine sentence | Businessinsider

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Rami Yogev, a former executive at Israel's flag-carrier airline El Al, has been sentenced to 12 years by a Tel Aviv court, for his part in a smuggling operation that transported large batches of cocaine from South Africa to Israel.

El Al exec who ‘thought he was smuggling gold’ from South Africa gets 12-year cocaine sentenceAn Israeli court has sentenced former El Al security executive Rami Yogev to 12 years.

He was, in fact, helping move at least 54kg of cocaine into Israel, as part of a smuggling operation the court described as one of the country's worst ever.

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