150,000 dollars, close to 1.6 million kroner, that is what the 19-year-old Hudikbon should have received for shooting Mustafa Benzema Al-Jiburi.
Threatened the family
– He admitted this during the trial, says Abd Aljabar Alaabdi, lawyer for the 23-year-old who was also convicted.
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According to the lawyer, the 19-year-old justified the murder by saying that Benzema had threatened to kill his family.
According to the lawyer and family members, three people have been sentenced to death by the Iraqi court. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has so far only been able to confirm that a Swedish citizen has been sentenced.
In addition to the three convicts, another 12 people have been involved in the murder plot in various ways, says the lawyer. Most of them are suspected of various forms of money crimes. According to the lawyer, it must be several million dollars that were in circulation around the murder.
Will appeal
The lawyer also says that they plan to appeal the verdict and he expects that it will take several years to get a verdict established.
Hear the lawyer talk in the video about more details about the trial against the three death row inmates.