Al-Marsad newspaper – Agencies: The Iranian judiciary announced that a gardener who worked for Iranian director Dariush Mehrjoi was the one who stabbed the director and his wife to death with a knife on October 15, due to financial disputes.
The head of the judiciary in Alborz Province, Hossein Fazli Harikandi, said, “The main suspect was a gardener in Mehrajoi’s villa and he was angry with him for financial reasons.”
He added that the director owed 300 million riyals (about $635) to his former employee.
The gardener beat Mahrojoi and stabbed him in the neck while the director was watching television. His wife was killed in her bedroom, according to the judiciary.
