Mark Credico
Las Vegas Overview-Journal
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A murder-for-hire plot culminated within the arrest of an entrepreneur in Las Vegas after the goal was warned of the plans and alerted the authorities, in line with the FBI.
Fereidoun Khalilian is an entrepreneur whose Instagram sports activities 135,000 followers and in addition manufacturers him as an leisure agent. The web page is crammed with pictures of him with a number of celebrities, together with musicians, actors and influencers.
Khalilian was arrested by the FBI in Las Vegas on June 22, and he’s accused of murder-for-hire, in line with a felony grievance supplied by the bureau.
The grievance mentioned Khalilian used his social media to mission an “picture of wealth” via the posts.
Authorities mentioned that the goal of Khalilian’s murder-for-hire scheme instructed the FBI that Khalilian attributed his wealth to being a royal prince from the Center East, calling himself “Prince Fred” to folks and on social media.
However the sufferer instructed authorities that he believed Khalilian didn’t garner his wealth from a royal lineage, however as an alternative was “a con man that gathered wealth via deception,” in line with the grievance.
The goal used to work for Khalilian in 2009 as an IT specialist for his telemarketing firm, the grievance mentioned. The corporate was shut down for conning folks out of hundreds of {dollars}, in line with the Federal Commerce Fee.
The Federal Commerce Fee web site hyperlinks Khalilian to 2 instances of fraud in two telemarketing corporations, together with My Automobile Options. The ultimate order within the 2010 case banned him from telemarketing, in line with the fee.
The previous IT specialist later went to California and acquired into the movie trade, in line with the grievance.
After working into Khalilian in 2019 in Los Angeles, the goal researched Khalilian on-line and discovered concerning the a number of instances of fraud he was linked to, in line with the grievance. This intrigued him, and the person determined to provide a documentary on Khalilian’s lifetime of “fraud and deception,” in line with the grievance.
The person interviewed Khalilian for the documentary over 5 days, and he instructed authorities that he satisfied Khalilian the documentary can be good for publicity and minimized that the movie can be an exposé.
Whereas researching for the documentary, the grievance mentioned the producer talked to Khalilian’s bodyguards, buyers and fraud victims.
In March, he then referred to as Khalilian over 20 occasions from spoofed numbers over two weeks, saying nothing or greeting Khalilian in a single or two phrases. In a kind of calls, the producer recorded Khalilian calling him by identify and threatening to mutilate and kill him, amongst different threats.
On March 17, a former bodyguard for Khalilian referred to as the person and warned him that Khalilian was paying him $20,000 to kill the documentary producer, in line with the grievance.
That day, Khalilian acquired an image from the previous bodyguard of the documentary producer laying facedown in a pool of blood along with his palms tied behind his again. However the producer was not lifeless within the image, in line with the felony grievance.
Khalilian’s former bodyguard and the producer faked the documentary producer’s demise, the FBI mentioned.
The grievance mentioned the sufferer contacted the FBI and reported the murder-for-hire scheme on March 21. The bureau then monitored the bodyguard’s messages with Khalilian, Khalilian’s funds to the bodyguard and recorded their calls.
After his arrest on June 22, Khalilian was transferred to California District Court docket, the place he’s due again for a standing examine on Monday forward of his jury trial in early September, in line with court docket information.
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