Investigators in the Fahim Saleh’s murder have said his killing may have been ‘financially motivated.’
The 33-year old Pathao co-founder and owner of Gokada was found dismembered inside his luxurious New York apartment on Tuesday afternoon.
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His body parts were found in plastic garbage bags, with his torso decapitated, all four limbs severed with surgical precision — arms at the shoulders, legs below the knees — and stuffed into plastic bags, New York Post reports.
There was reportedly no signs of a struggle and nothing was apparently stolen from the house.
The motive behind Saleh’s murder appeared to be financial in nature, a senior NYPD official said on Wednesday.
At the time of his death, DailyMail reports that he was being sued by a former prison guard turned criminal, Kirk Eady, who was jailed for using Saleh’s app PrankDial, which he founded in 2015, to secretly record and listen to employees’ phone calls.
The app let Eady, the former deputy director of Hudson County Correctional Facility, place a call between two employees without them knowing he was behind it, then listen in on whatever they said.
He listened to their complaints about him and about their jobs then he retaliated against them in the workplace, according to prosecutors.
Eady was jailed for 15 months and in 2017, sued Saleh for fraud, claiming the app made him think what he was doing was legal.
Though the investigation into his death is in its early stage, law enforcement officials now believe there were financial reasons attached to Saleh’s death.
However, detectives are scrutinizing evidence in the shocking killing of the young tech entrepreneur.
A source described the murder as “professional,” with the blood confined to one corner of the room, tracing a nearly perfect outline around the torso, The New York Post reports.
Investigators also believe that the assassin appears to have left the apartment in a rush without completing his purpose for entering the building.
Police say they have surveillance footage of the suspect entering the building on Monday, using the elevator and then getting in with Saleh when he arrived home.
The pair rode up to the seventh-floor apartment together but he fell to the floor as soon as he stepped out of the elevator after either likely being shot or stunned, the footage reportedly shows.
Reports say when police arrived on the scene, the blood immediately around the torso had not yet blackened, suggesting that Saleh had only recently been dismembered — likely within the last hour of the more than 25 hours the assassin apparently spent inside the apartment.
The tech millionaire’s body was cut with a power saw, which was found at the scene and plugged into an electrical outlet, The New York Times reports.
According to reports, the killer bolted via a staircase after Saleh’s sister buzzed up to the apartment and got into the elevator.
A source said;
He was dressed like a ninja, full out, so you cannot even see his face. He clearly knew what he was doing. We think his intent was to get rid of the body parts and go back and clean it up and make it look like nothing happened. He left before he finished the job.
Cops are now trying to work out whether the arrival of the victim’s sister interrupted the dismembering of Saleh’s body.
Detectives are also looking to see if the killer was able to escape through another exit.
