The cryptocurrency influencer who missed the call after being kidnapped along with three others in Montreal on Friday was last seen in a small municipality in Monterrey.
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According to our sources, the police raided an apartment located in Les Cèdres, a town of 7,000 inhabitants, on Saturday evening.
The four people kidnapped Friday in Old Montreal may have been detained there.
But when the police arrived, there was no one there. A security perimeter was also erected on Sunday morning.
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The Montreal City Police Service (SPVM) switched the investigation to the crimes against individuals unit of the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) because Mirshahi was last seen in its territory by the influential Kevin.
In this case, the provincial police refuses to specify the exact address of the intervention, so as not to interfere with the investigation process.
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The smugglers initially wanted to kidnap influencer Kevin Mirshahi, who is in the crosshairs of the Financial Markets Authority for his involvement in cryptocurrency fraud.
By the time they did their dirty work, three others were in the 25-year-old’s company. So the entire group was kidnapped.
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A vehicle allegedly used by the suspects to transport the victims was later found burned in an affluent neighborhood of Laval.
Later on Saturday afternoon, the SPVM announced a major development: three of the four victims, in Montreal’s Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough, had been released “safe and in good condition.” They were two women and a man in their twenties.
More details to come…
With Maxime Deland, QMI Agency
