Hasan Abuzour left the Middle East for Canada back in 2000, seeking refuge in a safe country renowned for its law and order.

Now he’s virtually penniless and heading to court Friday — for the sixth time in seven months — desperately trying to salvage whatever he can from his life’s hard work, some $3.6 million he thought was safe in a trust account and has now disappeared, along with his lawyer, Javad Heydary .

Abuzour, 57, is so overcome by grief, by worry about how he’s going to raise the remaining five of his nine children, three of whom are now in university, that he has to leave the room just to compose himself.

His wife, Samira, 55, is in Credit Valley Hospital for the third time since the couple found out earlier this month what they had been fearing for months — that the Bay St. commercial lawyer is suspected of emptying out “well in excess” of $3 million in trust money owed to the couple from a business deal.

Abuzour will be back in court Friday, desperately looking for answers that many suspect even auditors and Law Society officials won’t have for months — and maybe never — after poring over files all week.

“I want to sleep, but I cannot. We need my wife to sleep,” says Abuzour in broken English, pausing to control his emotions. “I’m not sure if I will ever get the money. I didn’t think if the money is in the bank, I could lose it.”

Last year, Heydary launched a high-profile lawsuit on behalf of investors in the Trump International Hotel & Tower.

No one is certain if the charismatic Heydary, 49, the founder of Heydary Hamilton and four other boutique downtown firms, is in his native Iran. According to one source, Heydary’s wife told his law partners he’s dead.

The Star has not been able to reach the wife or verify this.

The Law Society of Upper Canada is now in control of Heydary Hamilton, as well as Heydary Elliott, Heydary Green, Heydary Hayes and Heydary Samuel. Abuzour’s lawyer Ray Thapar hopes auditors can unravel the complex financial web.

Most of the focus is on Heydary Hamilton because its trust fund is the only of the five firm’s trust accounts that was solely controlled by Heydary himself.

Almost $163,000 was cleared out of the trust fund in just one day, Nov. 15. That was the court-imposed deadline for Heydary Hamilton, to hand over the Abuzour’s money, according to financial records included in court filings.

That night Heydary, 49, left Canada for his native Iran, telling colleagues he had to tend to a sick relative. He hasn’t been heard from since and no one answered the door at his Forest Hill Rd. home Thursday.

The Law Society of Upper Canada alleges that just $319,067.82 is left in the Heydary Hamilton trust fund and that Heydary himself is being investigated for “misappropriation, mishandling trust funds, and failing to comply with a court order.”

In the wake of the resignations of some lawyers from the firm — and concerns among staff that Heydary “would be a very strong and disruptive presence in the office” if he returned — the Law Society took over as trustee of the businesses this week.

“I could have done family law, but I chose commercial litigation because there’s no emotion, no drama,” says Thapar, the Brampton lawyer that Abuzour is now looking to in order to save his family from financial ruin.

“But this is the worst I’ve ever seen. It’s so important that people understand this is not just about a big Bay St. law firm, this is a real human tragedy.”

Abuzour was an entrepreneur before coming to Canada from his native Gaza, buying up small apartment blocks, investing in businesses in hopes of building a better life in Canada for his family. His nine children range in age from 12 up to 32; four of them are married and on their own.

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When Abuzsour decided to dissolve a printing business partnership last year, he needed a lawyer to handle the paperwork. After searching the Internet, his son suggested hiring Heydary. Heydary ended up completing the deal for $200,000, says Abuzour. Abuzour was supposed to receive his $5.1 million share in installments, most of which were to be channeled through a trust fund, between last January and April.

Expecting to soon be flush with cash, Abuzour flew off to Egypt on vacation and put down a $500,000 U.S. deposit on a plot of land. Later he would put a $100,000 deposit on a property in Mississauga.

But after months, and more than 11 encounters with Heydary — who threw up a host of objections to handing over the money, including demanding sureties from Abuzour’s former business partner on money the bank had already cleared — Abuzour contacted Thapar, head of commercial litigation at Simmons, da Silva and Sinton in August.

Worried that a relatively simple handover of funds had taken so long, he began proceedings to obtain the funds.

After numerous hearings, and what Thapar feared was just stalling from Heydary Hamilton, on Nov. 14 a judge gave the law firm until 5 p.m. the next day to hand over the funds.

The next night, the affidavit alleges, Heydary was on his way to Dubai and then his native Tehran.

“Lawyers are trusted to further the administration of justice and not obstruct it,” says Thapar. “I’ve never seen anything of this magnitude.

As it stands, the Abuzours are not only out the $3.6 million, but also the $600,000 deposits on land deals which they can no longer afford to close.

“My clients made 11 requests to get the money and at every turn they were given excuse after excuse,” says Thapar.