A suspect who’s been on the run for 2 years in reference to the murder of cryptocurrency influencer Kevin Mirshahi has been arrested in Mexico.
Quebec provincial police say Guillaume Nobert, 38, of Saint-Lazare was arrested in Cancun, and that extradition proceedings will likely be initiated to return him to Quebec.
Nobert is charged with the murder of Mirshahi, in addition to the kidnapping and forcible confinement of three different folks.
Police say the arrest was a collaboration between Mexican authorities, the RCMP and Interpol.
Mirshahi, 25, was kidnapped on June 21, 2024, from a apartment constructing in Outdated Montreal, and police imagine he was killed that day. His body was found in the Île-de-la-Visitation nature park in Ahuntsic-Cartierville 4 months later.
The Sûreté du Québec had (*2*) linked to the kidnapping and Mirshahi’s murder.
Mirshahi had been below investigation by the province’s monetary regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers, which in 2021 sought an order in opposition to him, two different people and an organization, forbidding any actions or transactions coated by the provincial Securities Act.
An administrative tribunal’s subsequent ruling included “bans on participating in any actions as funding sellers or advisers,” together with promotion on social media in reference to a selected cryptocurrency.
Based on the ruling, Mirshahi owned and operated a personal, paid Telegram group known as Crypto Paradise Island.
-With recordsdata from The Canadian Press
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