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, 45, and Polad Omarov, 40, took $500,000 of “blood money” from the Iranian government before hiring Khalid Mehdiyev, a 27-year-old self-professed member of the Russian mob ...

The federal trial of two suspects kicked off Monday after the pair were charged in a thwarted plot to kill a U.S.-based critic of the Iranian government on behalf of the Islamic Republic.

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 ...

Federal prosecutors say Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps in 2021 hired Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, members of a "Russian mob" sub-group, to kill an Iranian American journalist and ...

The man in her garden, Khalid Mehdiyev, had been directed to kill Alinejad by fellow members of a Russian mob organization known as Thieves-in-Law, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, prosecutors said.