Toronto police officers investigate after three adults died in the lobby of an office space in Toronto on June 17. A triple shooting left Arash Missaghi and an associate, Samira Yousefi, dead. Alan Kats took his own life, according to his widow.
His first known criminal charge came in June of 2000, when he was arrested in relation to an import-export company accused of scamming businesses out of property and other assets worth $3-million. That same year, records show Mr. Missaghi declared bankruptcy and never removed the status from his name.
In October, 2015, Ontario Provincial Police in Temiskaming Shores, a city in Northern Ontario, charged him with being a member of a criminal organization, and seven counts of fraud over $5,000 following a three-year investigation, according to court records. Officials at the Ontario Court of Justice in Haileybury told The Globe and Mail this week the charges were withdrawn by the Crown, without the officials providing a rationale.
In an e-mailed statement, Keesha Seaton, a spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, told The Globe “the Crown carefully considered all the relevant circumstances of the case, as well as the applicable law and the anticipated evidence, and determined there was no longer a public interest in proceeding.”