The three suspects in the murder of Moldovan-Israeli rabbi Zvi Kogan in Dubai last week fled to Turkey after the crime, but were detected by Turkish secret services, detained in the taxi in which they left Istanbul airport, and deported back to the United Arab Emirates, Turkish daily Sabah reports.
After verifying that the suspects had fled Dubai to Turkey, the Emirati government asked Ankara for help and the Turkish secret services (MIT) detected the three men as they disembarked from the plane in Istanbul, the newspaper reported, citing Turkish government sources.
As confirmed by the UAE Ministry of the Interior, which expressed its gratitude in a statement for “Turkey’s cooperation in arresting the suspects”, the suspects are three Uzbek citizens: Alimbey Tahirovic, 28, Mahmudjan Abdul Rahim, 33, and Azizbey Kamilovic, XNUMX.
The three suspects took a taxi, which was stopped by Turkish police at a traffic checkpoint to arrest the three and return them to the Emirates.
Zvi Kogan, who entered the UAE on a Moldovan passport but also held Israeli nationality, was an ultra-Orthodox rabbi and emissary of the Chabad Lubavitch movement who ran a kosher grocery store in Dubai.
After disappearing last Thursday, his lifeless body was found on Sunday by the Emirati authorities, who repatriated him to Israel on Monday.
Israel and the United Arab Emirates established diplomatic relations in September 2020 under the Abraham Accords, and made great progress in the bilateral relationship, especially in the commercial field, until October 2023, since when, following the war against the Palestinian Islamic terrorist group Hamas in Gaza, ties have cooled without reaching a break. EFE and Aurora
Türkiye arrested and deported three suspects in killing rabbi in UAE
One of the suspects in the rabbi's murder after his arrest in the UAE Photo: UAE Ministry of Interior via X (currently Twitter)