Shabbat Defense Fails In Extortion / Murder for Hire Case
Kew Gardens high end wholesale jeweler Israeli national Shlomo Patchiav, also known as “Slava Fatkhiev,” last week was found guilty of conspiring to extort Shehroz Tokhirov, an Uzbekistani immigrant from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn related to a $500K luxury watch deal. Shlomo’s co-conspirator in the extortion plot, one Sanat Djumayev, of Uzbekistan was not charged with any crime. Sanat took a flight to the Republic of Georgia, which isn’t far from Uzbekistan, in June of 2022, a day after Shehroz disappeared,…