A millionaire tech CEO’s assistant has been arrested and charged with using an electric saw to decapitate and dismember his boss.

Tyrese Haspil, 21, is facing a second-degree murder charge in the horrific execution of Fahim Saleh inside his $2 million New York City condominium. Saleh’s body was discovered by his cousin two days after the killing and surveillance footage shows Saleh and Haspil taking an elevator up to Saleh’s seventh-floor apartment on Monday, police said.

According to the New York Daily News, Haspil was caught stealing $90,000 from Saleh and was fired. Saleh then offered Haspil a chance to pay the money back to avoid criminal charges – but Haspil allegedly responded by killing his boss.

Haspil was seen wearing a black suit and black mask in the elevator ride up to Saleh’s apartment. He is believed to have used a Taser to immobilize his boss before stabbing him in the chest and dismembering him with an electric saw.

Investigators told the Daily News that Haspil used his credit card to purchase the saw and the Taser prong recovered from Saleh’s body was matched to a serial number on a device connected to Haspil.

Haspil was also reportedly caught on surveillance video buying the saw and cleaning supplies. Police said Haspil came back to the apartment the day after he killed his boss to dispose of the body and evidence, but he was interrupted by Saleh’s cousin, who discovered the horrific scene.

Saleh was a self-made tech entrepreneur who invested in several transportation startups, according to his LinkedIn. He co-founded the ride-hailing company Patheo in his parents’ home country of Bangladesh in 2015. Two years later, he co-founded Gokada, a motorbike-hailing company in Lagos, Nigeria and took over as the CEO of the company last April. He also created the venture capital firm Adventure Capital in New York in 2018.

However, Saleh hit some setbacks earlier this year when the Nigerian government banned Gokada, which was forced to transition into a delivery service during the coronavirus pandemic. The company had just raised $5.3 million in funding from Rise Capital, venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, in May 2019.

‘We used to call him the Elon Musk of the developing world. He was like the Energizer Bunny,’ a friend of Saleh’s told The Post.

‘His best friend in Dubai called me just sobbing on the phone, “They took my boy, they took my boy!”…he was so full of ideas.’

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