SHARJAH: The federal court of appeals in Abu Dhabi has sentenced three men to death for the murder of an Israeli cleric.
According to news agency reports, the three men sentenced to death are from Uzbekistan. The fourth convict involved in the murder of Zvi Kogan has been sentenced to life imprisonment, and he will be deported after completion of the sentence.
It should be noted that Israeli religious leader Zvi Kogan was murdered in November last year. Kogan was living in the United Arab Emirates on a passport from the European country of Moldova.
Later the four people were arrested in the United Arab Emirates in connection with the murder by the Emirati interior ministry.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office had denounced the killing of the rabbi, Zvi Kogan, 28, as a “heinous antisemitic terrorist act” and said Israel would do everything it could to bring those responsible to justice.
Kogan was a resident of the UAE and also a Moldovan national, according to local authorities. He worked with the New York-based Orthodox Jewish Chabad movement and was first reported missing and layer his body was discovered.
Israeli officials had claimed that Kogan was targeted because he was Jewish, without providing further details.
An Israeli foreign ministry official said all Israeli agencies were involved in the investigation and that it was believed Kogan had last been seen at a Kosher supermarket in Dubai.
Kogan’s body was found in the Emirati city of Al Ain, which borders Oman, though it was not clear if he was killed there or elsewhere, former Israeli politician Ayoob Kara had said.
Kara, a member of Israel’s ruling right-wing Likud party who promotes economic relations between Israel and the Arab world, said there were indications that investigators suspected Iranian involvement.
However, Tehran had rejected accusations of its role in the killing of the Israeli rabbi in the UAE.
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