Police Chief Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim says a request may come if a “direct link to the assassination on our soil” is established. His remarks were reported on Monday by The Gulf News.
The detained man, using the name Uri Brodsky, is suspected of working for Mossad to issue a fake German passport to a member of a hit-squad that allegedly killed Hamas agent Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January.
Dubai police have identified 32 suspects they say traveled to the Gulf city-state on forged European and Australian passports to kill Al-Mabhouh.
Brodsky was arrested on a European warrant issued by Germany.
Polish prosecutors on Monday said they aimed to hand over the suspected Mossad agent to Germany, despite Israel’s calls for him to go home.
“The prosecutor’s office will ask the Warsaw court to order the handover to Germany,” spokeswoman Monika Lewandowska was quoted as saying by Poland’s PAP news agency.
Lewandowska said that Germany had filed a European Union arrest warrant against the individual — a move which speeds up extraditions in the 27-nation bloc.
Polish officials have refused to identify the man, named in German media as Uri Brodsky.
According to German weekly Der Spiegel, which broke the story on its website on Saturday, Brodsky was arrested at Warsaw airport on June 4 on suspicion of obtaining a German passport by fraudulent means.
The passport was used by people involved in the Jan. 20 assassination in Dubai of Al-Mabhouh, a founder of the military wing of Palestinian movement Hamas.
Germany issued an international arrest warrant for Brodsky several weeks ago.
The Dubai hit sparked a diplomatic crisis for Israel after the team of assassins — widely believed to be from the Israeli spy agency Mossad — was found to have used 26 forged passports from Britain, France, Germany, Ireland and Australia.
The Warsaw arrest has also proved delicate diplomatically for Poland, one of Israel’s closest allies.
On Sunday, Israeli ministers called on Poland to send the man home and said the country opposed his extradition to Germany.
