The mystery over the New York connection to the assassination of a Mideast terror chief deepened yesterday as the founder of a credit-card firm implicated in the plot disappeared.
Employees of Yuval Tal’s Payoneer Inc. said he wasn’t at the company’s Midtown headquarters, and Brooklyn neighbors of Tal said he was out of the country.
Payoneer, founded by Tal in 2005, has been identified as the firm that supplied credit cards that ended up in the hands of the suspected killers of Hamas commander Mahmud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.
Tal is a former member of Israel’s special forces and has become a focus of attention since Dubai police charged that Payoneer issued at least 17 credit cards to the hit team that carried out the Jan. 19 murder.
At Payoneer’s office at 1841 Broadway, workers said Tal was “not in today” and no one else could speak for the firm.
Tal is listed as the owner of an apartment building on Berkeley Place in Park Slope.