Ex-PA of Murdered Gokada Founder Arrested

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Tyrese Haspil, a former personal assistant to Gokada founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fahim Saleh, has been arrested over his murder.

Saleh was killed and dismembered by an unknown assassin on Tuesday inside his Lower East Side apartment, in New York.

Haspil, 21, was arrested today and is expected to be charged with second-degree murder, among other crimes.

Several days after Saleh’s sister found his body, police are beginning to piece together the events that led to his killing.

They already knew that a man dressed in a black suit followed Saleh from his building’s elevator to his apartment, used a stun gun to immobilise him, and then stabbed him to death.

They believe that happened on Monday.

The killer returned the next day to clean up the crime scene but was interrupted when Saleh’s sister, stopping by to check on him, buzzed his apartment.

Police are of the opinion that the killer fled the apartment when Saleh’s sister arrived. When she entered, she found her brother’s body, decapitated and dismembered in trash bags. An electric saw was still plugged in nearby.

Detectives also believe that the motive for the killing stemmed from Saleh having discovered that the assistant had stolen tens of thousands of dollars from him, despite the fact that the deceased had not reported the crime and had set up what amounted to a repayment plan for him to return the money.

The entrepreneur, 33, learned that Haspil allegedly stole $100,000 from him — but instead of reporting him out to authorities, he brokered a repayment plan with the younger man. But at some point, Haspil allegedly reneged on the deal.

The killer used his employer’s credit card to pay for a car to a Home Depot, on West 23rd Street in Manhattan, to buy cleaning supplies to sanitise the crime scene.

The killer returned to Saleh’s apartment the next day to dismember the body and clean up the crime scene.

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