Police ID body in Montreal park as abducted crypto influencer missing since June

By The Canadian Press on November 13, 2024.

MONTREAL – Quebec provincial police say a body found in a nature park last month was that of a cryptocurrency influencer who had been missing since he was kidnapped from his Old Montreal condo in June.

Police say Kevin Mirshahi’s remains, discovered on Oct. 30 at Montreal’s Parc de l’ÃŽle-de-la-Visitation, were formally identified by the coroner’s office.

Mirshahi, 25, had been missing since he and three other people in their 20s were kidnapped from the parking garage of his condo building on June 21.

Three of the four people kidnapped – two women and a man – were found alive a day later in western Montreal, but Mirshahi remained unaccounted for.

By August, Quebec provincial police had concluded Mirshahi had been killed and they arrested Joanie Lepage, 32, of Les Cèdres, 45 kilometres southwest of Montreal.

She was charged at the courthouse in Valleyfield, Que., with first-degree murder, forcible confinement and accessory after the fact to murder on Aug. 22.

According to the charges, the killing is alleged to have taken place in Les Cèdres on the same day as the kidnapping.

Police say other arrests could be coming as the investigation is ongoing.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 13, 2024.

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