Fahim Saleh, former co-founder of Nigerian ride-hailing startup, Gokada, who was killed at his home last July, had a fortune estimated at more than $6 million, new legal documents have revealed. The startup CEO was killed at his home last July in New York and savagely dismembered. Court documents are however disclosing that the 33-year-old Bangladeshi entrepreneur did not leave a will and did not have a wife or child. It is therefore his parents who will inherit his fortune, says the “New York Post”. The source said, according to the court documents, Saleh’s parents wanted to access the funds quickly in order to be able to continue the operations of his companies.
“Saleh’s parents and siblings desperately want his businesses to achieve the ambitions of the deceased,” reads the New York Post article.
His 21-year-old assistant Tyrese Haspil is being charged with the murder. It was alleged that he tasered Saleh after following him in the elevator leading directly to into the latter’s Manhattan apartment. The suspect was in charge of his finances and personal affairs. The murder allegedly occurred after Saleh discovered that his employee had embezzled $90,000. But the two had already developed a repayment plan before the murder. Haspil pleaded not guilty last October.
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According to New York media reports, police found in the apartment — which the startup founder had recently acquired for some $2.2 million — an electric saw, which the killer allegedly left at the scene of the crime.
Fahim Saleh, who said in a post on the Medium site that he started out by launching an application for making telephone hoaxes, chaired the company Gokada, a two-wheeler sharing and home delivery application in Nigeria. According to his Twitter and Instagram accounts, he was also the co-founder of a venture capital firm, Adventure Capital, which specializes in digital services aimed at “making life better” in developing countries.
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