A Boston man supplied to pay a complete of $8,000 to somebody he thought was a contract killer, however who was truly an undercover federal agent, to have his estranged spouse and her new boyfriend killed, prosecutors mentioned Wednesday.
Mohammed Chowdhury, 46, was held at an preliminary listening to on a murder-for-hire cost in federal court docket on Tuesday pending a detention listening to scheduled for Friday, the U.S. lawyer's workplace in Boston mentioned in an announcement.
An e mail looking for remark was despatched to his federal public defender.
Authorities had been tipped off by an informant in November that Chowdhury was soliciting help to have his spouse killed and the informant supplied his cellphone quantity to legislation enforcement, prosecutors mentioned.
An spy posing as a contract killer then contacted him, authorities mentioned.
Chowdhury met with the spy and agreed to pay $4,000 per killing, prosecutors alleged.
He supplied the agent with pictures of his spouse and the boyfriend, advised them the place they lived and labored, and supplied their work schedules, prosecutors mentioned. He was apprehended Tuesday when he allegedly paid a $500 deposit.
Chowdhury advised brokers his spouse would not let him see his kids and he wished the killings to appear like a beating and theft, prosecutors mentioned.
Chowdhury allegedly requested the brokers, "So how we gonna disappear his, uh, physique?" and mentioned, "No proof. No proof. No proof from like, , that, uh, I did one thing, ?"
He supplied the undercover brokers with pictures of his spouse and her new boyfriend, the place they lived, the place they labored and their work schedules, prosecutors mentioned.
If convicted, Chowdhury faces a sentence of as much as 10 years in jail, three years of supervised launch and a wonderful of as much as $250,000.