LEXINGTON, Ky. — An Islamic leader in Lexington and two others are charged in a murder for hire plot.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports an informant posing as a hit man first met with Islamic Center of Lexington leader Mahmoud Shalash. Shalash told the informant a person owed him $80,000 and asked the informant to do whatever he had to to get the money back.
According to affidavits, two associates of Shalash later asked the informant to kill a second person they believed had cheated them in business deals. John Sadiqullah is charged along with with Shalash in federal court in Lexington. Abdul Hadi faces the same charges in a separate case filed also filed in Lexington.
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Attorneys for the three men did not immediately respond to emails requesting comment on Sunday.
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