The rich tech tycoon who allegedly shoved his spouse from a SoCal mountain killed her to cease her from siphoning hundreds of thousands from their joint checking account, new court docket paperwork reveal.
Aryan Papoli had withdrawn $5 to $8 million from the financial institution she shared with Gordon Abas Goodarzi and had plans to separate the couple’s lavish properties between their two sons, in accordance with a possible trigger affidavit obtained by The California Put up.
On the time, the couple of 28 years was in the midst of a bitter divorce initiated by Papoli, who made a number of makes an attempt to make sure that her allegedly grasping husband didn’t block the boys from getting their inheritance.
“It’s believed that the homicide partially was dedicated for that monetary acquire,” prosecutors declare within the jaw-dropping doc obtained by The California Put up.
“It’s believed the defendant would financially profit from the homicide by having the ability to declare a proper to the cash.”
The explosive allegations shed additional mild on the cold-blooded homicide in San Bernardino County — which prosecutors had beforehand claimed was financially motivated.
The couple was 5 months into divorce proceedings when Papoli’s physique was discovered on the backside of a 75-foot embankment on a mountain highway on Nov. 18.
On the time, the 2 have been combating over a number of properties that they deliberate to divvy up, together with the $3 million Rolling Hills Property “marital residence” the place Goodarzi was arrested, a $1 million greenback dwelling in Chino Hills and a 43,000-square-foot industrial property in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Additionally they had a vacant plot in SoCal value $500,000 and a property in Crestline — the identical city the place Papoli’s physique was found.
Papoli was additionally searching for spousal assist from her estranged engineer husband of 28 years, who offered his tech firm US Hybrid, a clear power firm specializing in zero-emission powertrain elements for business and navy automobiles, for $50 million in 2021.
Papoli, 58, was apparently attempting to go the cash to the 2 sons she shared with Goodarzi, each of whom are of their 20s, however the former tech CEO nonetheless has a “group property and inheritance proper to the funds a probate court docket should decide.”
The money is obvious motive for homicide, prosecutors allege.
The divorce was known as off Dec. 23 “because of the loss of life of the petitioner.”
Investigators had already alluded to Goodarzi’s allegedly grasping incentives. In a felony criticism filed final week, he was accused of making an attempt to take property of “nice financial worth” and had taken benefit of the belief of his spouse to facilitate her loss of life.
It isn’t clear what sparked the divorce, although Papoli cited “irreconcilable variations” in her June petition.
The Iranian-born mother of two had solely moved to Newport Seashore six months earlier than her loss of life, searching for a “serene place to thrive creatively” after retiring, her son Navid Goodarzi stated.
Goodarzi made a quick look in San Bernardino County court docket Tuesday for an arraignment that was postponed till Thursday. He stays in custody.
