Justice Dept. charges three members of an Eastern European criminal group with ties to Iran with attempting to assassinate a prominent U.S. journalist and activist critical of the Iranian regime.
members of an Eastern European criminal group with ties to Iran with attempting to assassinate a prominent U.S. journalist and activist critical of the Iranian regime.unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Department of Justice said the three men were enlisted last year to murder an American citizen of Iranian origin on U.S. soil.
The three defendants who were charged are Rafat Amirov, Polad Omarov and Khalid Mehdiyev. Amirov, a citizen of Azerbaijan and Russia who was living in Iran during the plot, was taken into custody in New York on ThursdayMehdiyev, also a citizen of Azerbaijan, was living in Yonkers, N.Y., and was arrested at the end of July. Omarov, a citizen of Georgia, was arrested in the Czech Republic in early January and the U.S. will request his extradition to the U.S., the Justice Department said.
Ahead of the attempted assassination, Mehdiyev"surveilled the victim and members of the victim’s family; took photographs and videos of the victim’s residence in Brooklyn and surrounding neighborhood; and devised schemes to lure the victim out of the victim’s house," the indictment said.
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