Arash Missaghi evaded responsibility for failed cleanup at abandoned Ontario factory site

The abandoned pulp-and-paper factory on Temiskaming Shores’ waterfront is a reminder of the town’s history producing particle board. It also now serves as a reminder of how the protection of a community’s drinking water was entrusted for more than a decade to reputed serial fraudster Arash Missaghi.Mr. Missaghi purchased the land on which the factory sat for $2 in 2012. But the paltry price tag came with a commitment by the Toronto man and the corporation that he controlled, Mansteel New Liskeard Inc., that a reserve of several millions of dollars would be deployed to ensure the hazardous chemicals on the site did not run into the local creeks that drain into Lake Temiskaming.