2 Canadians, Including a Hell’s Angel, Indicted in Complex Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Iran Defectors

2 Canadians, Including a Hell’s Angel, Indicted in Complex Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Iran Defectors
An exterior sign is photographed outside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington on May 4, 2021. The Canadian Press/AP-Patrick Semansky
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The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the indictment of one Iranian and two Canadian nationals, one of them a member of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang, in a complex murder-for-hire scheme.

“From December 2020 through March 2021, Naji Sharifi Zindashti, 49, Damion Patrick John Ryan, 43, and Adam Richard Pearson, 29, conspired with each other in a plot to murder two residents of the state of Maryland,” said a Jan. 29 Justice Department release.
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