A passerby found the 25-year-old’s body in Montreal’s Île-de-la-Visitation park on Oct. 30, the Sûreté du Québec told The Montreal Gazette. Mirshahi had not been seen since he and three others were abducted from a condo building in Old Montreal on June 21. (The Montreal Gazette)

Talking point: Mirshahi was found the same week as another Canadian crypto-kidnapping. Suspects forced WonderFi CEO Dean Skurka into a vehicle in downtown Toronto on Nov. 6, CBC News reported, releasing him after he paid a $1-million ransom. Jameson Lopp, co-founder of crypto security firm Casa, told CBC Radio that Skurka’s kidnapping was the 171st instance of physical violence to steal bitcoins in English-speaking countries in the past decade. Mirshahi had been under investigation by regulators since 2021 for his ties to the investment group Crypto Paradise Island, which was linked to an alleged pump-and-dump scheme in 2021 involving a token called MRS. The SQ arrested a 32-year-old woman in connection with Mirshahi’s kidnapping in late August, alleging in an arrest warrant that Joanie Lepage killed him the day he was abducted.