According to a law enforcement official, Fahim Saleh the tech entrepreneur's assistant was in custody Friday in connection with the dismemberment of Saleh at his luxury Manhattan condo.
According to officials, the assistant, who allegedly owed Saleh a hefty amount in tens of throusands of dollars was on a repayment plan. Saleh, 33, was found dead in his Lower East Side apartment on Tuesday, When Saleh's sister rang the doorbell to his condo, the assistant was allegedly cutting up his body with an electrical saw and fled.
According to New York City's medical examiner, Saleh died of multiple stab wounds. According to law enforcement officials, Saleh was last seen in surveillance video getting into an elevator in his apartment building and a man dressed in all black, possibly Saleh's assitant, the alleged supect according to police entered the elevator with him. The elevator in Saleh's building goes directly to the apartment units there. Saleh died from stab wounds to the neck and torso and his death is being called a homicide.
Saleh, the son of Bangladeshi immigrants, was the founder and CEO of Gokada, a motorbike-hailing app in Nigeria. He most recently founded the venture capital firm Adventure Capital -- which invested in ride-sharing start-ups in countries like Bangladesh and Colombia. According to family Saleh was a "brilliant and innovative mind".
The family issued a statement where "The headlines talk about a crime we still cannot fathom,". Fahim is more than what you are reading. He was so much more. His brilliant and innovative mind took everyone who was a part of his world on a journey and he made sure never to leave anyone behind. "There are no words or actions to provide any of us comfort except the capture of the person who exhibited nothing short of evil upon our loved one."
While only a teenager in highschool, Saleh founded PrankDial.com a website for prerecorded prank phone calls that, he wrote in 2018, had generated over $10 million since its start.
He continued to build and sell sites throughout his highschool and his time at Bentley University in Massachusetts and Saleh helped kickstart the careers of other young people in the technology industry.
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