UAE arrest three Uzbek nationals for allegedly killing Israeli-Moldovan rabbi

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday (Nov. 25) said that the police arrested three Uzbekistan nationals for killing an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi in the Gulf country.

The police arrested the suspects on Sunday after the body of 28-year-old UAE-based rabbi Tzvi Kogan, was found by security services.

Kogan, who ran a kosher grocery store in Dubai, went missing on Thursday.

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“The authorities revealed the identities of the three perpetrators, all of whom are Uzbek nationals,” an interior ministry statement carried by the official WAM news agency stated.

The three men were identified as Olimpi Tohirovic, 28, Mahmoud John Abdul Rahim, 28, and Azizi Kamilovic, 33.

The ministry said authorities were taking “the necessary actions to uncover the details, circumstances, and motives of the crime”.

However, the report did not say anything about whether charges had been filed against the men.

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Uzbeks were involved in Kogan's killing, Israeli media reports alleged, citing unnamed security officials. Earlier also, Uzbeks have been hired in Iranian plots targeting dissidents and others.

The Israeli officials called the murder an anti-Semitic and "terrorist attack".

However, Iran's embassy in Abu Dhabi denied Tehran's involvement in the rabbi's killing.

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(With inputs from agencies)