Later he was appointed deputy minister during the tenure of Ali Fallahian. He was also the director of the ministry’s security directorate.Some sources claimed that Emami was of Jewish origin, but Ali Fallahian believes that “they just wanted to justify his arrest and torture”. According to Hamshahri, he was the first Holocaust denier in the Islamic Republic.In 1999, after being charged with orchestrating the Chain Murders, Emami was arrested and imprisoned. According to Muhammad Sahimi: