Cops suspect the deadly kidnapping of a Brooklyn slumlord
was a professional hit ordered by one of the many creditors to whom he was deep
in debt, sources told The Post.
Menachem Stark owed multiple people amounts ranging from
tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars — and one apparently got
fed up with waiting for the money, law-enforcement sources said Tuesday.
In addition, the two thugs who abducted and killed Stark
during Thursday’s blizzard may have arrived from overseas to whack him, sources
said.
Cops got “a flood of calls” from tipsters after Stark’s
family on Monday increased the reward for information about his murder to
$25,000.
Descriptions of his abductors “led us to believe that the
suspects are not American. They could be from out of the country, possibly
Europe,” one source said, declining to elaborate further.
Sources also said Stark’s widow told detectives that she saw
a minivan matching the description of the kidnappers’ parked near their home
about a week before her husband was grabbed from in front of his office.
In addition to racking up crushing debts, Stark ran rental
properties riddled with code violations and sidelined as a loan shark, sources
have said.
Surveillance video captured Stark’s violent abduction, but
the blinding snowstorm obscured his assailants’ faces and license plates,
sources have said.
Undaunted, cops are interviewing gas-station workers and
reviewing red-light camera videos between Brooklyn and the Great Neck, LI,
Getty station where Stark’s burned body was found in a dumpster on Friday,
sources said.
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