Fahim Saleh, founder and Chief Executive Officer of ride-hailing company, Gokada, was found dead in his New York apartment.
Saleh, the son of Bangladeshi immigrants, started Gokada in Lagos State in 2018.
The tech entrepreneur’s limbless, headless torso was found inside his Manhattan condo Tuesday afternoon with an electric saw lying next to the remains, the paper quoted the police as saying.
Mr Saleh, 33, is believed to have bought the Gokada Company for $2.25 million last year.
Police found his dismembered body in contractor bags in what seemed an effort to hide the evidence of the crime.
“We have a torso, a head that’s been removed, arms, legs. Everything is still on the scene,” the New York Police Division’s spokesperson, Carlos Nieves, told the paper.
He said they could not immediately identify the dismembered corpse but Mr Saleh’s sister who discovered the dismembered body Tuesday afternoon made a distress call to them after not hearing from him for a day and feared the lifeless body might be her brother’s.
After checks with friends and neighbours who spoke on anonymity, they identified the grisly body lying next to the electric saw as the young CEO who had been residing in the apartment for a year.
The police said the saw was still plugged into an electrical outlet when they arrived which prompted an investigation into whether or not the arrival of Mr Saleh’s sister at the condo could have interrupted the killing and alerted the killer to flee through another exit.
His Body has however been moved to the morgue for more investigation.
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