NEW DELHI: Tyrese Haspil personal associate of technical CEO Fahim Saleh supposedly beheaded his employer in New York in July 2020 in a’crime of passion’, according to his attorney’s discussion on Friday.
Haspil’s security says that he was determined to conceal his robbery of hundreds of thousands of dollars from Saleh and feared that his European girl, Marine Chaveuz, would keep him if she discovered the truth. This anguish reportedly drove Haspil to force his way into Saleh’s$ 2. 4 million Lower East Side house, Taser him, and then tragically kill him, according to New York Post.
Haspil’s defense lawyer, Sam Roberts, is attempting to persuade the 12-person judge that Haspil was suffering from “extreme personal disruption,” which led to the shooting. Prosecutors allege that Haspil, worried about being “abandoned” if Chaveuz learned of the$ 400,000 he had stolen, believed his only options were” suicide or homicide,” and chose the latter.
Fahim Saleh, the CEO of Gokada, a Nigeria-based bicycle company, and a venture entrepreneur, discovered that$ 90,000 had gone missing from a business spending bill in January 2020. He confronted his associate, Tyrese Haspil, about the missing money, which were later traced back to Haspil himself.
Despite the weight of the position, Saleh chose not to pursue legal action against Haspil, whom he considered his protégé. Alternatively, he allowed Haspil to recover the stolen funds through a repayment plan. But, Haspil continued to steal funds from Saleh’s business, this day using a Facebook account, but was caught when again.
Lawyers claim that with the risk of prosecution looming, Haspil properly researched and planned how to commit the murder and escape detection. Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Linda Ford told the judge,” Over this period of time, he was planning not only to undertake the crime but to get away with it …To cover it up and how to remove his debts and avoid Fahim Saleh from testifying in legal proceedings. “
According to prosecutors, Haspil, wearing a helmet, attacked Saleh with a Taser, stabbed him, and therefore dismembered the brain a day later.
Despite his efforts to clear up the crime scene, Haspil failed to remove a single “anti-felon drive” identifying label, which was recovered and matched to the Taser that Haspil had ordered to his Brooklyn handle a month before the murder.
Saleh’s body was discovered by his niece, who found his neck exposed in the living area alongside building luggage when she went to check on him after not hearing from him for several times. Despite his alleged dedication to Chaveuz, Haspil was seen two days after the murder with a mystery woman in Noho, buying birthday balloons and allegedly using his deceased boss ‘ money to purchase luxury items for his new girlfriend at an Airbnb birthday party.
Haspil has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges, which carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years to life in prison if convicted. His attorneys hope that the jury will instead convict him of manslaughter due to his “emotionally disturbed” defense, which carries a lighter sentence of five to 25 years.
Roberts argued that Haspil’s life has been “marked by trauma,” stemming from a difficult childhood marked by years of abuse from his schizophrenic mother, who allegedly kept him locked in a bedroom and beat him. Roberts claimed that while Haspil’s actions “might not be rational to us,” from his perspective, “in his shoes, at that time, it made some sort of sense to him. “
