Wanted Toronto man living freely abroad

Man wanted since 2010 for inciting genocide

TORONTO • Salman Hossain is a Canadian fugitive. Wanted for promoting a genocide against Jews, he is the subject of an Ontario Provincial Police warrant and an Interpol notice that asks police worldwide to locate and arrest him.

But he is not that hard to find.

On Sunday, a photographer caught the 32-yearold former Toronto resident outside a coffee franchise in the Gulshan district of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. He arrived in a silver Toyota Corolla with Bangladeshi licence plates.

Photos he has shared privately in recent weeks show him in the restaurant and gym at Dhaka’s luxury Lakeshore Banani hotel, and standing behind his Corolla in an area of Dhaka known as Diabari Uttara.

“That individual is still wanted,” said Acting Staff Sgt. Peter Leon of the OPP, which conducted the investigation that resulted in Hossain becoming the first person charged in Canada with advocating genocide.

When charges were laid against Hossain in July 2010, the OPP said it would do “everything in our power to bring him to justice.” Seven years later, he has not been arrested, despite facing a total of five counts that could see him imprisoned for 16 years.

Aside from notifying Interpol, it’s unclear what steps authorities have taken to return him to Canada for trial. Canada does not have an extradition treaty with Bangladesh, but at the time the charges were laid police said they would still seek his arrest.

A senior Bangladeshi official in Ottawa, however, said he knew nothing about the case. “We are not aware of the issue,” said the official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak.

Lawyers for a Canadian accused

in a massive hack of Yahoo emails will be in an Ontario court Monday to fight a judge’s decision to deny the man bail. Karim Baratov is appealing an April ruling by Ontario Superior Court Justice Alan Whitten, who found the 22-year-old was too much of a flight risk to be released on bail. The judge also said Baratov’s parents would not make suitable supervisors because they had not questioned his growing wealth or his business activities while he was living with them.