(NY Times) Khalid Mehdiyev returned a phone call in the summer of 2022 from a fellow member of the Russian mob, Polad Omarov. They had been collaborating on a project, Mr. Mehdiyev said, extorting a grocery store owner in Brooklyn.
Now, Mr. Omarov said, he had been offered a bigger job by some people he knew.
“They want the journalist die,” Mr. Mehdiyev said Mr. Omarov told him. “They want to give that job to us.”
Over several days in a Manhattan murder-for-hire trial, Mr. Mehdiyev, an Azerbaijani member of a Russian crime syndicate, gave a detailed description of how Mr. Omarov had directed him in a failed plot to murder Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-born journalist and dissident living in Brooklyn.
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