SEATTLE -- A Newcastle eye surgeon was willing to pay more than $100,000 to have two business partners killed, according to the FBI.

Federal agents say Dr. Michael Mockovak had even hired the Russian mafia to carry out the job.

On Monday Mockovak walked out of court, and right back into the King County Jail.

One of the alleged targets is Mockovak's former brother-in-law, Dr. Joe King.

The King family issued a statement which said, in part, "It is incomprehensible how someone could deliberately plan to take someone's life and completely devastate a family. We feel very blessed to be alive."

Prosecutors say King and Mockovak co-founded Clearly Lasik in Renton.

When profits sank last year, the doctors fired several employees, prompting former company president Brad Klock to file a complaint in court.

Mockovak responded by asking a Russian-born employee for mafia connections as he wanted Klock "eliminated," according to court documents.

Mockovak also wanted King killed, the documents said, as King had taken out as $5-million insurance policy. He said he wanted King's death to look like an accident, and suggested drowning as a method, the documents said.

Agents arrested Mockovak last week without incident at the YMCA in Newcastle. They searched his home just hours later while neighbors watched.

"I know he's had some financial troubles like everybody else has had due to the times. The economy is bad. People had to cut back," said neighbor Cheryl Jiambalvo. "Whether that would make him do anything drastic -- I wouldn't think so."

Mockovak posted $1 million bond Friday and was released. But federal agents took him back to jail on Monday after a judge raised his bail to $3 million, calling him a threat to the alleged murder-for-hire targets as well as a flight risk.

Mockovak is due back in court on Wednesday.

Federal agents say the King family is in hiding, because they fear for their safety. Klock's attorney said his client learned of the murder-for-hire scheme while he was out of the country.