Tech executive Nima Momeni accused of assaulting woman

REVEALED: Tech exec charged with stabbing to death Cash App founder Bob Lee was accused of ‘grabbing and pushing’ woman who had been allowed to stay on his couch in exchange for cleaning his apartment

• Nima Momeni, 38, was accused of domestic violence against a woman last year
• Police arrived to the tech executive’s home when they received a call on August 1
• Momeni is accused of stabbing Bob Lee in San Francisco on April 4

The Bay Area tech executive charged with stabbing Cash App Bob Lee to death was accused of ‘grabbing and pushing’ a woman in his California loft and was known to suddenly shift his behavior, according to a police report. 

Nima Momeni, 38, was arrested on August 1 for allegedly beating a woman in his Emeryville apartment – located north of Oakland.

The woman, who wasn’t identified in police reports, had met Momeni only a few days before and was staying in his home in exchange for her cleaning services.

She recalled how the murder suspect ‘forcefully grabbed her right upper arm and her right side waist area’ and ‘then pushed her against a counter.’ 

‘One minute he will be fine and the next he will go off for no reason,’ she told police, according to the SF Chronicle. 

Momeni is accused of stabbing Bob Lee three times with a kitchen knife around 2.30am near the west end of the Bay Bridge on April 4. Investigators believe Momeni was confronting Lee about a relationship with his sister, Khazar, who is married. 

Nima Momeni, the man accused of stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee to death in early San Francisco on April 4, was previously cited for domestic battery inside his loft in 2022

Momeni is accused of stabbing Bob Lee, shown here, three times with a kitchen knife around 2.30am near the west end of the Bay Bridge on April 4

The woman involved in the August 2022 incident contacted the police when Momeni attacked her. Officers arrived at the apartment building 10 minutes after the 3.11pm call.

Once at the scene, police met with the woman who was ‘upset and on the verge of crying’ on a stairwell, Officer Alan Johnson wrote in a police report. Momeni arrived to talk with them several moments later.

According to the report obtained by the news outlet, the cops cited and released Momeni on suspicion of battery almost an hour after the call came in.

They then waited with the victim, who was arranging transportation before eventually giving her a ride.

Momeni denied the attack and his roommate told police he heard an argument. The roommate didn’t appear to see the alleged attack and said the woman was the ‘aggressor based on the way she was yelling at Momeni and trying to throw items in the apartment.’

In the report, an officer wrote that the woman hadn’t been cleaning as she was supposed to and ‘Momeni told her she had to leave the apartment.’

‘That is what the argument was about,’ the report read.

Police added that the woman showed them red marks on her arm where Momeni allegedly grabbed her, but they were unable to tell if the imprints were from the ‘attack’ or when the woman was demonstrating how he supposedly grabbed her.

He was cited and released on the same day. Alameda County District Attorney’s Office didn’t file charges.

In another incident at Momeni’s residence from October, police say his car – a white BMW – was vandalized by his ex-girlfriend.

The vehicle is the same one police believe he used to drive Lee to the spot where he later fatally stabbed him in the downtown area.

In that case, the man said he knew who had messed with his car, but records did not indicate how the situation was resolved. 

A June 2019 call from his home to Emeryville police reported possible identity theft. 

The records obtained by the local news outlet did not indicate whether Momeni was the caller, however. The person told police they had noticed suspicious credit card denials in the mail.

Nima Momeni appears in court on Tuesday April 25 to be arraigned on murder charges 

Momeni’s lawyer said in a recent interview that Lee and Khazar Elyassnia (above) had a relationship

At the time of Lee’s death, investigators believe Momeni was confronting Lee about a relationship with his sister, Khazar, who is married. Pictured: Khazar and her husband Dr. Dino Elyassnia

According to Momeni’s lawyer, since his arrest in mid-April, the former IT consultant has been placed on suicide watch inside the city’s jail.  

Paula Canny said Momeni was being closely monitored, which is ‘standard’ in high-profile cases in San Francisco. 

The attorney, in an interview with the New York Post, also confirmed a relationship between Lee and Momeni’s sister, Khazar Elyassnia. 

‘Bob Lee and his sister definitely knew each other,’ said Canny.

Prosecutors allege that Lee and Momeni were arguing about Khazar at the time the stabbing took place. 

Video footage first obtained by DailyMail.com showed Lee stumbling through the streets of downtown San Francisco before collapsing and dying from his wounds. 

The suspected murderer is said to have been grilling Lee about whether Khazar had been ‘doing drugs or anything inappropriate.’  

Khazar is married to Dr. Dino Elyassnia, one of San Francisco’s top plastic surgeons. 

One witness who said he’d been friends with Lee for a decade told police that he believed Lee and Khazar were having an intimate relationship. 

The unnamed witness said Khazar and her husband’s marriage might have been in ‘jeopardy.’

Momeni’s arrest happened days after Lee’s stabbing sent shockwaves throughout the area

Lee, the founder and creator of Cash App, was stabbed in San Francisco on April 4

On April 4, Lee was filmed on surveillance cameras staggering into an apartment building in downtown San Francisco at 2.35am after being stabbed. Yesterday, police searched the nearby apartment of Momeni’s sister, Khazar. It’s unclear if they’d been together or at the apartment earlier in the night 

Momeni’s lawyer has claimed there is much more to this story than meets the eye.

‘There’s so much more to this – and a much greater backstory than what has been disclosed at all in the government’s pleading,’ she said.

She warned that the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office ‘seem to think they have enough to make an arrest, but I haven’t seen it.’

‘So, until I see it and analyze it, I’m gonna say they’ve made a mistake,’ she added. ‘There isn’t enough [to hold him].’

Momeni has been jailed without bail and is scheduled to next appear in San Francisco Superior Court on April 25.

Momeni depicted in a court sketch on April 14. His sister was in the courtroom to support him. The pair immigrated to the US from Iran as children 

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