Two Eastern European Organized Crime Leaders Convicted of Murder for Hire Targeting U.S.-Based Journalist on Behalf of ...

Prosecutors say Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov hired a Yonkers, New York-based gangster to gun Alinejad down outside of her ...

A jury has found two Eastern European individuals guilty of conspiring to kill US-based journalist Masih Alinejad after being ...

According to the US Department of Justice, the Iranian government hired Polad Omarov and Rafat Amirov to kill Masih Alinejad in exchange for USD 5,00,000. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shared ...

Both defendants, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, stood quietly as the jury’s foreman answered “guilty” in response to Judge Colleen McMahon’s questions about each of the counts. They were ...

Rafat Amirov of Iran and Polad Omarov of Georgia were found guilty in connection with the 2022 murder-for-hire scheme, the Justice Department said in a Friday press release. The plot targeted ...

A jury in Manhattan federal court found Rafat Amirov, 46, and Polad Omarov, 40, guilty on Thursday of five charges including murder-for-hire over the planned assassination in 2022 of Masih ...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK - Two men who U.S. prosecutors say belong to a Russian organized crime group were convicted of ...

Both individuals were found guilty on all five charges, including attempted murder in aid of racketeering, according to the US Justice Department. A federal jury has convicted Rafat Amirov and ...