The organization was founded by brothers Yaakov, Avi and Itzhak Abergil, of Moroccan Jewish origin, in the city of Ramat Gan, Israel, in the 1990s.

The Abergil Organization is involved in a wide range of criminal activities, including drug trafficking, money laundering, and extortion.

In 2005, Yaakov Abergil was arrested in Israel and extradited to the United States, where he was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 32 years in prison.

[2] According to the indictment, the crime organization headed by Itzhak and Meir Abergil ran a flourishing money-laundering business in the US from 2002 to 2006, processing tens of millions of US dollars of funds embezzled from the Israel Trade Bank, through the “Jerusalem Gang′s” extortion of Ofer Maximov,[3] that led to his sister Etti Alon's embezzling 250 million shekel.

Gabi Ben Harosh of the “Jerusalem Gang” who was arrested in Los Angeles in 2004, ran the lending bank in the United States and updated Meir and Itzhak Abergil on its balance.

The activities have been documented in hundreds of surveillance reports, photographs and phone calls, which were recorded by police departments all over the world and are detailed in the indictment.

[6] US federal prosecutors claim that when the Abergils wished to expand their mob syndicate in the US, they turned for help to an upstart Latino street gang known as the Vineland Boys.

On 31 August 2003, Sami Atias, an Israeli drug dealer who had belonged to an ecstasy ring headed by Abergil and Moshe Malul, was shot at close range and killed in the parking lot of an Encino café as he was getting into his car.

According to the indictment, Moshe Malul and fugitive Vineland Boyz′ member Luis Sandoval, were at the scene when Atias was shot, but another man had pulled the trigger.

[10] In August 2008 31-year-old social worker Margarita Lautin (Hebrew: מרגריטה לאוטין), from Yehud,[15] was killed while dining on the Bat Yam boardwalk with her husband and two young children.

The two suspected assassins, Ronen Ben-Adi and Shimon Sabah, members of the Abergil mob, fled the scene on a motorcycle, but were later apprehended by the police.

[19] The assailants were apparently targeting Rami Amira, who was sitting at a table nearby with Moti Hassin and Simantov Mahtayeb, who are all identified with the Abergil group, in an effort to resolve an internal dispute.

The indictment includes four different crimes that are attributed to Yitzhak Abergil: involvement together with Malul in the murder of Atias in California in 2003, trade in Ecstasy, extortion and violence against businessmen, and money laundering and fraud.

[8] The inquiry into the case had lasted for six years, involving the FBI, tax authorities and law enforcement officials in more than ten countries in America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

[6] In July 2009, a Jerusalem District Court approved the state's request to extradite the Abergils, Sasson Barashy, Moshe Malul and Israel Ozifa to the US.

In March 2012, Hassin and three alleged accomplices were arrested on suspicion of being responsible for two gangland hits carried out in the Tel Aviv area, the killings of Avi David, who was shot dead at point-blank range by a motorcyclist outside a Bat Yam steakhouse in October 2011, and Itzik Geffen, who died in a hail of gunfire at a gas station in Holon two months later.

[29] In February 2013, the police arrested three men suspected of taking part in the murder of Sharon Mizrachi, who was shot to death while sitting in his car in Bat Yam.

[23] Charged with blackmailing U.S. businessmen to whom the brothers had lent money,[32] he allegedly had played a relatively minor role in the crimes and is thought to have been involved mainly in the extortion of Asi Vaknin,[23] who was arrested in Mexico and brought to the United States in April 2011,[33] but refuses to testify against the Abergils.

[34] In Israel, he faces criminal charges pending against him in the district court in Petah Tikva over allegations regarding his involvement in an Internet gambling business set up about 10 years ago which operated in many locations in Israel, including Internet cafes, convenience stores, soccer lottery outlets and nightclubs functioning as casinos.

[35] In May 2012, Itzhak Abergil pleaded guilty in a Los Angeles federal court to being part of a racketeering enterprise that distributed Ecstasy and whose members killed Sami Atias for stealing a large drug shipment.

[37] On 8 January 2013, Sasson Barashy was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy and was sentenced to four and a half years in prison with credit for time served.

According to the police, "the matter of the case - a series of events and suspicions of committing crimes in Israel and abroad, in the areas of serious and organized crime, including violence and drugs, by dozens of suspects and involved, some of whom are identified with the activity of criminal organizations On 13 July 2015, an indictment was filed against 18 defendants, led by Abergil, who was still serving the remainder of his prison term after being returned from the United States, Abergel's right-hand man Yaniv Ben Simon, the only one who managed to escape the threat of judgment, but was caught in November 2022 in South Africa.

Among other things, Abergil was accused of running a criminal organization and exporting and importing drugs around the world on a huge scale.