A Tech consultant has been charged with the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco.
Nima Momeni, 38, was arrested on Thursday before being charged and is due to appear in court for his arraignment on Friday, authorities said.
Police said the men knew each other but declined to give more details or disclose a possible motive for the killing.
Police found Mr Lee, with stab wounds in the Rincon Hill neighbourhood of San Francisco at 2.30am on 4 April.
Mr Lee, who created the mobile payment platform CashApp said to be worth $40billion, died in hospital.
Tributes poured in for him from figures in the US tech industry following his death.
He created Cash App while working as chief technology officer of the payment company Square, now known as Block. He was the chief product officer for the cryptocurrency firm MobileCoin at the time of his death.
Lee was raised in Missouri and had recently moved to Miami with his father, but was back in San Francisco for business when he was killed. Friends described him as adventurous and fearless, and a doting father to his two children.
On his LinkedIn profile, Momeni describes himself as an “IT Consultant/Entrepreneur” as well as the owner of a company called Expand IT.
Business filings with the state list Momeni as the chief executive officer, secretary and chief financial officer of Expand IT INC, described as an information technology consulting business. He signed the filing in August 2022.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Momeni has been “a dedicated technology partner since 2005” and that he started Expand IT in 2010.
