Two Quebecers are under arrest in Peru, in connection with the murder of a third Quebec man who settled in that country a couple of years ago to make a fresh start.
La Presse reports that 34-year old Jonathan Raymond went missing in July but his body was only found this week, in a ditch near the town of Yurimaguas. He'd been shot in the head.
His family says Raymond had moved to Peru to take up cocoa and plaintain production after a few minor brushes with the law. His past seemed to have followed him, as he briefly came under investigation as a possible exporter of cocaine to contacts in Quebec but nothing was ever proven.
The two suspects in his death were his employees, both Quebecers, one of them a childhood friend of Raymond.
Raymond's property holdings may have been a motive for his murder. Because he did not have Peruvian citizenship, he'd transferred title to several plots of land to one of the suspects, who did have joint citizenship.