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When Alexandre Cazes woke up in his Bangkok home on July 5, one of four properties he owned in Thailand, the 25-year-old multimillionaire from Trois-Rivières, Quebec, likely felt on top of the world.

His Thai wife was expecting their first child, he owned vacation homes in Antigua, Cyprus and Phuket, and on his computer was a document listing his net worth at US$23-million. That total included the Lamborghini Aventador and Porsche Panamera he liked to drive around town.

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According to a U.S. court document made public Thursday, Cazes did not even have a chance to close the laptop he had been working on in his bedroom when police raided the home and his charmed life came crashing down.

At a news conference in Washington, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions identified Cazes as the creator and administrator of an illegal online marketplace that made tens of millions of dollars facilitating the trade of narcotics, firearms, stolen identification documents and computer hacking tools.