Dubai: A senior Dubai Police official gave a lecture on the investigations undertaken in Mahmoud Al Mabhouh's assassination case to Interpol officials at the headquarters in Lyon, France.

Major General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina, Deputy Commander of Dubai Police, told Gulf News the lecture was given to officials working in collaboration with Dubai Police on the assassination case of senior Hamas commander Al Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel.

Al Mabhouh was assassinated on January 19. Some 27 suspects, carrying different western passports, have red arrest warrants issued against them. The Chief of Dubai Police, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, confirmed the involvement of Mossad in the assassination.

According to a statement to the media, Maj Gen Al Mazeina took part at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Heads of National Central Bureaus of member states with the Organisation of the International Criminal Police (Interpol), held in Lyon, France, with the participation of 188 countries.

On the request of Ronald Noble, Secretary General of Interpol, Maj Gen Al Mazeina gave a lecture on the assassination of Al Mabhouh, which shed light on the actions taken to identify the suspects, and the process of connecting the events as presented in footage by Dubai Police. The ample information is based on the footage, records about the suspects' passports, evidence collected from the crime scene such as DNA, credit cards used by the suspects, and interrogations with eyewitnesses from the hotel where Al Mabhouh was assassinated.

Earlier, Maj Gen Al Mazeina announced that succinylcholine, also known as suxamethoniumchloride, was injected, traces of which were found on Al Mabhouh's leg.

According to him, many members of the 188 member nations requested Interpol to provide them with models and investigation details of the case to be used as an educational module to be taught in police academies and colleges. The passports used by the assassins were real and not forged, Lt Gen Dahi said earlier.

Collaborators

The police chief said the people who allege that their identities were stolen and used by the assassins should sue. He had earlier told Gulf News that these people are not necessarily ‘victims' and that they could also be collaborators.

"This assassination has given us a window into Mossad's world and the way they operate. We have learned more about their techniques, the disguises they use and their methods of spying," Lt Gen Dahi said.

Al Mazeina told Gulf News investigations are still ongoing.