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Between news reports of an horrific 2010 crash that left a Thai woman dead with Frank accused of driving while impaired and unproven allegations of large-scale stock fraud, drug use and associations with unsavoury figures, Toronto police have plenty to look at.

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Detectives are also pursuing other avenues in their search for a motive, but Simon’s clearest path to the underworld could be through his brother.

“There is nothing to indicate he was involved in anything suspicious,” Dawson said of Simon.

Frank hired Bean in 2014 to work in his Bangkok-based boiler room — a high-pressure, telemarketing sales team that lied, bullied or sweet talked people into selling good stock for way too little money, Bean alleges.

Numerous attempts to contact Frank went unanswered prior to deadline.

Bean, 38, from Texas, moved to Asia and found work in stock sales in Bangkok before he met Frank.

It didn’t take Bean long, he said, to realize he was working in a boiler room. While at that first job he met Frank, who Bean said was once partners with the guy running the scheme but was no longer on good terms with him. When Bean’s boss heard he and Frank were friends, Bean was ordered not only to leave the company but also the country, according to Bean.

“Two large, thuggish guys came in and took me to my hotel, they watched me pack my bags and were to escort me to the airport,” Bean said. He said he made a sneak call to Frank, who told him not to get in a car with the men. Frank told him he should run for it as soon as they took him out of the hotel — Frank would be in the parking lot and Bean was to jump onto the back of his motorbike, according to Bean.