Ex-boyfriend charged in Elnaz Hajtamiri's abduction from Wasaga Beach home
CBC
The ex-boyfriend of Elnaz Hajtamiri has been charged with kidnapping and attempted murder in her violent abduction from a home in Wasaga Beach earlier this year, Ontario Provincial Police say.
Mohamad Lilo of Brossard, Que. also faces charges of attempted kidnapping in connection to a prior assault on the 37-year-old woman in Richmond Hill, Ont. on Dec. 21.
The charge comes approximately three months after two other men were charged in connection with the December assault.
They also come after CBC News reported in April that Lilo hired a private investigator to watch Hajtamiri prior to her abduction in January.
Hajtamiri, who lives in the Toronto area, has been missing since she was forcibly taken by three men wearing police gear on the evening of Jan. 12 from a home where she was staying with relatives in the popular tourist area at the foot of Georgian Bay, about a two-hour drive north of Toronto.
As previously reported, sources have told CBC News Lilo is the former boyfriend of Hajtamiri, who also goes by the last name Tamiri, and that the two broke up last October.
Hajtamiri, who was born in Iran, came to Canada in 2018 and found work in the import-export shipping industry, according to a news release from the family, but she had recently left her job to focus on building a cake-making business.
She has yet to be located.
Lilo is expected to appear in court on July 13.
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