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Three Arrested in Murder-for-Hire Plot Directed From Iran

U.S. Dept. of Justice
Article Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice

Article Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice

IRGC Soleimani - Iran
Vehicles drive past a giant portrait of former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) Quds Force, Major General Qasem Soleimani in downtown Tehran. Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images
  • A federal court in New York unsealed murder-for-hire and money laundering charges against three members of an Eastern European criminal organization for plotting the murder of a U.S. citizen who has been targeted by the Government of Iran for speaking out against the regime’s human rights abuses.
  • Rafat Amirov, 43, of Iran; Polad Omarov, 38, of the Czech Republic and Slovenia; and Khalid Mehdiyev, 24, of Yonkers, N.Y. are charged with: murder-for-hire, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison; conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison; and conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Read More

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