The two Quebecers murdered Monday in Playa del Carmen could have been victims of theft or a settling of accounts related to alleged fraud.
Posted yesterday at 5:20 p.m.
This is reported by Mexican media, citing local police sources.
Raphaël Huppé, 44, and Fannie Lorrain, 38, were found murdered Monday in a condo on 12e Street in the downtown area of the popular Mexican resort town. Both victims were reportedly stabbed in the neck, authorities said.
In the residence, the police would have discovered sophisticated technological devices allowing to carry out financial operations with cryptocurrency, reported media from Mexico.
Evidence was also found that Huppé used at least three different identities, one of which was Erick McCarthy.
Mexican investigators want to verify if Huppé could have committed fraud in Mexico.
“False identifications with the same identity as him have been found. [L’homme et la femme] had quite sophisticated equipment and the experts will examine it to determine if it was revenge or simply a robbery,” said the Attorney General of the Quintana Roo region, Óscar Montes de Oca, quoted by local media.
On the run in Mexico
Raphaël Huppé had been in Mexico since January 2016, authorities said. For six years, he had been the subject of an Interpol search warrant, and he probably settled in Mexico to flee the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
Federal police had arrested him in 2014 for a case of fraud, but the case was pending, according to court records.
In fact, Raphaël Huppé multiplied financial offenses in the country. Even in his absence, the judgments against him have accumulated in recent years, after lawsuits from the Autorité des marchés financiers and the Commission for Standards, Equity, Health and Safety at Work.
The latest, in 2019, condemned its former companies to pay $628,237 to some forty ex-employees following a collective dismissal at InterCore Research Canada Inc., headed by Raphaël Huppé.
The company, which ended up laying off all of its employees and declaring bankruptcy, claimed to have designed a device to detect driver fatigue, as reported The Press at the time.
Figureheads in trouble
InterCore used three other companies to pay its employees. Two of them bore the name of Raphaël Huppé: Huppé Etco and Huppé Studio. The Superior Court considered that he was the directing soul, but on paper, it was a couple from Laval who were shareholders: Danielle Beauchamp and Claude Brun.
Met by The Press Wednesday, these two former partners ensure that Raphaël Huppé got them into trouble before taking to their heels in Mexico.
Didn’t they agree to play the figureheads for him at the time? “Today, we understand it, concedes Danielle Beauchamp. We helped him start his business. Now the authorities are after us. »
She assures that they had nothing to say in the direction of the companies which they launched for Raphaël Huppé, but that they had to pay thousands of dollars to honor judgments pronounced against them.
Claude Brun even says that the RCMP came to question him. “They thought we had helped him escape,” he said. The police would have abandoned this lead, but the couple expects to receive other complaints.
The same year InterCore went bankrupt, Huppé published a book outlining what he believed were the best ways to get to the top: How I Get Things Done! : No Matter What.
On September 3, 2020, Raphaël Huppé commented on social networks on a message from François Legault to antimaskers and conspirators. “He’s going to end up being shot this cliss there,” he wrote.
grieving friends
As for Fannie Lorrain, according to her Facebook page, she worked for the Société Mer et Monde, of Montreal, which describes itself as an organization that initiates international cooperation. The Company did not respond to the message from The Press.
Mexican police say the victims were a couple, however friends of the young woman on social media, where many lamented her death, reject this.
“Today I mourn my friend, I mourn my former colleague, I mourn my late-night confidante, I mourn the wonderful person who made the stars shine around her. I’m crying so as not to scream my rage, ”wrote one of them.
“Your death is unreal, awful, tragic and unjust. Yesterday again we were playing with the ants, children. A part of me grew up with you. Wherever you went, you left your rays. I can’t believe this horror. But you touched so many people. Each of them, I’m sure, remembers a wonderful person. With life ahead of you. I wish you peace. I kiss you, ”added another.
With the collaboration of Maxime Bergeron, The Press
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