{"id":18561,"date":"2024-11-13T18:07:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/body-of-missing-crypto-influencer-found-in-montreal-park\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T18:07:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:07:28","slug":"body-of-missing-crypto-influencer-found-in-montreal-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/body-of-missing-crypto-influencer-found-in-montreal-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of Missing Crypto Influencer Found in Montreal Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Canadian province of Quebec have confirmed that the body discovered on October 30 in a Montreal nature park belongs to cryptocurrency influencer Kevin Mirshahi. This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/kevin-mirshahi-identified-montreal-1.7381365\">local media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to case materials, the 25-year-old blogger and three of his neighbors were abducted on June 21 from a luxury condominium on De la Commune Street. While the others were found 24 hours later near a bus stop in the western part of Montreal, the search for Mirshahi had long been fruitless.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the victims&#8217; testimonies, law enforcement learned the address of a house where the alleged murder took place and discovered a burned-out SUV, believed to have been used to transport them.<\/p>\n<p>Mirshahi&#8217;s body was found on October 30, but for nearly two weeks, police withheld any information about the victim&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p>Joanie Lepage, 32, who was arrested at the end of the summer, is accused of committing the crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Mirshahi was the administrator of a private Telegram group called Crypto Paradise Island. In 2021, he became the subject of an investigation by the <span data-descr=\"Canadian Financial Markets Authority\" class=\"old_tooltip\">AFM<\/span> for offering investment contracts without registration. In 2024, the regulator, by court order, banned the blogger from acting as a broker or investment advisor.<\/p>\n<p>In July, a <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/foreign-national-murdered-in-kyiv-over-bitcoin\">foreign national was murdered<\/a> in Kyiv in a bid to seize his digital currency worth over $170,000.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that unknown individuals kidnapped Dean Skurka, CEO of Canadian crypto company WonderFi, and demanded $1 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Canadian province of Quebec have confirmed that the body discovered on October 30 in a Montreal nature park belongs to cryptocurrency influencer Kevin Mirshahi. This was reported by local media. According to case materials, the 25-year-old blogger and three of his neighbors were abducted on June 21 from a luxury condominium on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[771,1154],"class_list":["post-18561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-canada","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}