UAE says Uzbeks arrested over Israeli-Moldovan rabbi’s murder

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UAE says Uzbeks arrested over ********-Moldovan ******’s *******

Authorities in the ******* ***** Emirates say they have identified three Uzbek nationals as the suspects arrested over the ******* of an ********-Moldovan ****** and said they were working to determine a motive.

The interior ministry published photos of three blindfolded men whom it named as Olimboy Tohirovich, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim and Azizbek Kamilovich.

The body of ****** Zvi Kogan, a 28-year-old emissary for the Orthodox ******* organisation Chabad Lubavitch in Abu Dhabi, was found on Sunday, three days after he had disappeared.

******* condemned the ******** as an “abhorrent antisemitic ********** *******” and vowed to track down those responsible. Moldova also called it an “act of antisemitism”.

The UAE’s ambassador to the US said it was a ****** against the Gulf ***** state, which established full diplomatic and trade relations with ******* in 2020.

****** Kogan’s ******** is expected to take place at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on Monday evening, after an ******** religious organisation that collects ******** of the ***** for burial said a plane carrying his body had left the UAE.

“At this moment, his coffin has been placed on a flight to *******,” Zaka said in a statement.

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that security authorities had “begun initial investigations with the three suspects arrested for committing the ******* of Moldovan resident Zvi Kogan in preparation for referring to the public prosecution”.

It also expressed a commitment to “swiftly take the necessary measures to uncover the details, circumstances and motives of the incident”.

*******’s Haaretz newspaper cited Emirati security sources as saying over the weekend that a suspected cell “indirectly operated by Iran” was responsible.

However, Iran’s embassy in the UAE said it “categorically rejects allegations” of any Iranian involvement.

On Monday, the ******** news website Ynet reported that the killers might be linked to ************ Islamic ******, ****** or another “********** organisation”.

****** Kogan was in the UAE as an emissary for Chabad, which caters to the religious, social and humanitarian needs of Jews around the world, and he also managed a kosher supermarket in Dubai.

The ****** was reported missing by his wife after he did not show up to a meeting on Thursday.

Chabad said he was abducted in Dubai and driven towards the border with Oman.

His car was abandoned in Al Ain, which is about 90 minutes’ drive away from his home in Abu Dhabi, his body was found on Sunday morning after “security and intelligence agencies from a number of countries co-ordinated an intensive investigation to locate him”, it added.

Speaking at the start of the ******** government’s weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to track down the ******’s killers.

“The State of ******* will use all means, and will deal with these murderers, and those who dispatched them, to the fullest extent of the law. None of them will get away,” he said.

Moldova’s President, Maia Sandu, said her country mourned “the tragic loss” of ****** Kogan and “strongly condemn this hateful act”.

“Our thoughts are with his family, the ******* community, and all who grieve,” she said.

Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE’s ambassador to the US, said: “Zvi Kogan’s ******* was more than a ****** in the UAE – it was a ****** against the UAE. It was an ******* on our homeland, on our values and on our vision.”

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