Peel Regional Police in Canada have announced that the case of Mojgan Aini — the wife of a former United Nations diplomat who was last seen nearly four years ago in Mississauga — is now being investigated as a homicide.
In a statement, Peel police said that Mojgan Aini, 38, who was also known by the names “Sara” or “Sarah,” was last seen in June 2022. Her family in Afghanistan was unable to contact her until June 2025 and subsequently reported her missing to the police.
The statement emphasized that a suspect has been identified in connection with the case, but authorities have declined to release further details.
It is worth noting that Mojgan Aini migrated to Canada in 2017 along with her three children and her husband, Mohammad Yama Aini.
Mohammad Yama Aini had previously been investigated on allegations of serious assault and was dismissed from his position at the United Nations, although no formal charges were filed against him.
Mojgan Aini’s name first made headlines in August 2017 in American and Afghan media when she was reportedly subjected to domestic violence by her husband, Mohammad Yama Aini, a counselor at Afghanistan’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
In 2017, the New York Post reported that around noon on Saturday (July 22, 2017, local time), Mohammad Yama Aini allegedly beat his wife, Mojgan Aini, so severely that she was hospitalized.
Citing U.S. police, the New York Post wrote that the 46-year-old diplomat allegedly pulled his 30-year-old wife by the hair and struck her in the face and head with slaps and punches, leaving her face and right eye swollen and bruised.
Hospital staff in New York reported the incident to the police; however, at the time, authorities were unable to arrest Mr. Aini due to diplomatic immunity.
At that time, the Afghan mission adviser to the United Nations in New York denied the assault allegations in an interview with the New York Post, stating: “Nothing happened.”
