


                                 MOSSAD BLUNDER ?!


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                                  Three textfiles
                           about rabbi and aide arrests
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                 [  most probably some katsas-tsafririm from AL
                    or some MOSSAD sayanim  (Ha Mossad, le
                    Modiyn ve le Tafkidim Mayuhadim), which is
                    the Israelian Institute of Investigations
                    and Special Operations ]


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             The Gazette, Friday, January 28, 1994, page A-1
             ( Irwin Block )
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             Cte St.Luc rabbi and aide
             held on cocaine, heroin charges
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                A rabbi who led High Holiday services at Beth Zion
             Congregation in Cte St.Luc, the synagogue's gabbai, or
             deacon, and a third man have been arrested and charged with
             trafficking in heroin and cocaine.

                Rabbi Meyer (Mike) Krentzman, 49, who presided over the
             auxiliary service at the synagogue for its overflow holiday
             crowd, and Andor (Andy) Galandauer, 45, who chooses people
             for honors during services, each face seven counts in the
             drug charges.

                Galandauer operates a pleating company for clothing
             manufacturers and his involvement in the synagogue is
             voluntary.

                The three men were arrested last week and are being held
             in the Parthenais detention centre along with a third
             accused, Viswanadhan Thamotharampillai, who faces four
             counts.

                Qubec Court Judge Gaston Labrche was to decide today
             whether to grant the accused bail and under what conditions.
             A publication ban has been placed on testimony at the bail
             hearing, which began Wednesday.

                Among the offences alleged, Krentzman and Galandauer have
             been charged with selling one kilogram of cocaine Dec. 6 and
             30 grams of heroin Jan. 19 to undercover police.



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                The three men have also been charged with selling one
             gram of cocaine Nov. 17, plotting to commit a criminal act
             between that date and Jan. 19, and possessing 81 grams of
             heroin Jan. 19 for trafficking purposes.

                Word of the arrests caused a sensation in Cte St.Luc,
             where many Jews live, because Krentzman has held moderately
             prominent positions as an employee of major Jewish
             organizations.

                Krentzman is a former assistant director at the national
             office of the Jewish National Fund here, which collects
             contributions, ranging from pennies from school children to
             larger amounts from adults, for purchasing trees and land in
             Israel.

                He has also been national director of the Canadian
             Zionist Federation, the umbrella organization of groups that
             support a Jewish national state.

                Galandauer has been associated with the Jewish Defence
             League, a militant group that believes in using force to
             defend Jewish interests here and in Israel.

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             The Gazette, Saturday, February 5, 1994, page A-3
             ( Irwin Block )
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             Rabbi and aide hit with more charges
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                Charges involving false passports and firearms were added
             yesterday to the accusations of drug trafficking against two
             Cte St.Luc religious officials.

                Rabbi Meyer (Mike) Krentzman and Andor (Andy) Galandauer
             looked weary as they made brief court appearances yesterday.

                Galandauer, owner of a Montreal pleating factory for
             women's garments, was charged with possession of what police
             described as "a panoply of restricted or prohibited
             weapons", including pistols and rifles and more than 1.000
             rounds of ammunition.

                The weapons were seized at Galandauer's Smart Avenue
             residence.

                His lawyer, Leonard Waxman, said outside the court that
             Galandauer is a longtime gun collector and gun-club member
             who failed to re-register the weapons or modify them when
             rules affecting restricted weapons had been changed.

                The two men, as well as Viswanadhan Thamotharampillai, a


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             Sri Lankan native who worked at Galandauer's factory, were
             denied bail last week after they were charged with
             trafficking in heroin and cocaine.

                They have been detained at the Parthenais detention
             centre since Jan. 19.

                Their arrests have made headlines in Jewish newspapers in
             New York City and Israeli newspapers because Krentzman, 49,
             has held prominent administrative positions in Montreal's
             Jewish community organizations. He also presided over the
             auxiliary High Holiday services at the Beth Zion
             Congregation in 1991 and 1992.

                Galandauer, 45, has acted as gabbai  -  the person in
             charge of designating people who bless the Torah on the
             Sabbath  -  at the Beth Zion synagogue on a voluntary basis.

                The other charges laid yesterday said that Galandauer and
             Krentzman had equipment to falsify passports and made false
             statements to get a passport for Larry Aguebor and Rose Mary
             Aguebor.

                Court documents indicate that Larry Aguebor, 33, pleaded
             guilty in November to possession of cheques that were to be
             used for committing forgery. He also admitted to obstructing
             police. Aguebor received two years in prison.

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             The Gazette, Saturday, February 26, 1994, page A-3
             ( Geoff Baker )
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             Rabbi given 5-year sentence for drug trafficking
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                Looking beaten and worn, rabbi Meyer (Mike) Krentzman
             pleaded guilty yesterday to drug-trafficking charges and was
             sentenced to five years in prison.

                Krentzman, 49, of Cte St.Luc, slumped in the prisoner's
             dock while his wife, daughter and son-in-law looked on.

                "I would say that right now, you've more or less lost
             everything," Quebec Court Judge Yves Lagac told Krentzman
             moments before handing down the sentence, to which the
             prosecution and defence had agreed beforehand. "You've
             certainly lost the respect of the people of your community."

                Given Krentzman's religious status and his position in
             the Jewish community, his arrest last month attracted
             international attention.

                A father of five, Krentzman pleaded guilty to trafficking


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             in 30 grams of heroin. He had originally been charged with
             trafficking in 81 grams.

                Other charges he admitted to included conspiracy to
             traffic in one kilogram of cocaine, and trafficking in one
             gram of cocaine and one gram of heroin.

                Krentzman also pleaded guilty to various schemes to
             defraud his bank and an insurance company and to acquire
             Canadian passports for people by making false declarations.

                Lagac said it's difficult to deal with cases of family
             men and upstanding citizens who get involved in
             drug-trafficking because it's tough to tell who deserves a
             break and who doesn't.

                "One thing I cannot get used to here on the bench are
             people, who have children, who sell cocaine or heroin," the
             judge told Krentzman.

                "You go ahead and sell cocaine knowing full well what it
             does to children. We call the people who use drugs bums. I
             don't know what we call you."

                Prior to the sentencing, defence lawyer Raphael Schachter
             made an impassioned plea to the court - and to the Jewish
             community - not to judge his client too hastily. "What we
             are dealing with is a rabbi ... who has lost his way," he
             said.

                Krentzman has been in jail since Jan. 19, when he was
             arrested along with Andor (Andy) Galandauer, 45, who owns a
             pleating factory for women's clothing, and Viswanadhan
             Thamotharampillai, 45 [ Sri Lankan ].

                Police found Galandauer in possession of a large number
             of restricted weapons [ ... see article of February 5 ].

                That has fuelled rumors of a plot to funnel arms to
             Israel or to right-wing Jewish groups [ SIC ]. But evidence
             presented yesterday by prosecutor Mario Dufresne indicated
             Krentzman and his accomplices were more like bungling
             amateurs than master criminals [ ... nevertheless very well
             armed for amateurs ! ].

                Krentzman admitted he and Galandauer tried to stage a
             break-in at a house in St.Laurent on Dec. 7 so the owner
             could collect insurance money.

                But the owner had forgotten to warn his brother the heist
             was being staged and not to call police. When the terrified
             brother, who was sleeping in the basement, woke up and heard
             strange men upstairs, he ran to a neighbor's house and
             phoned 911.



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                Krentzman and Galandauer were still at the house when
             police arrived to arrest them.

                Last month, Krentzman tried to pull another scam by
             depositing a bogus $88,000 cheque - supposedly from an
             insurance company - into his commercial account at the Royal
             Bank of Canada on Guy St.

                Three days later, he returned and asked the bank for
             cheques payable to him from the account in the amounts of
             $74,000, $8,400 and $6,100. Krentzman then walked to a
             money-exchange office and had the cheques converted to
             foreign currency.

                He was arrested the next day - with $6,671 cash on him -
             when he returned to the bank, which by then had figured out
             the original cheque was phony.

                In another fraud scheme, a man and his wife went to
             Galandauer's office and paid to have Canadian passports
             obtained for them. Krentzman vouched for the couple
             [ Aguebors ] on the application form, saying he had known
             them two years - though he had only just met them.

                On Dec. 6, Krentzman negotiated the sale of a kilogram of
             cocaine to an undercover police officer for $53,000. On
             Jan. 19, he tried to sell 30 grams of heroin to the same
             officer for $3,500, when he was arrested.

                Galandauer is to reappear in court March 10. Viswanadhan
             pleaded guilty this week to drug-trafficking charges and was
             sentenced to three years in prison.


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