Filed in support of: Notice of Civil Claim (Ontario SCJ Toronto) · 4 plaintiffs (Francesco Longo, Lucy Ceylan, Armin Ceylan, Betty Ceylan) · 21 defendants · CAD $510M+ Mareva cap
“The ink is completely different in the typing. It was clearly forged. And it was in the Superior Court sent to them as evidence.”
— Francesco Giovanni Longo, voice directive 27 April 2026. Preserved inCEYLAN_PASS5_NEW_FACTS.promptinclude.md §1and sworn in paragraph 27 of the Affidavit of Francesco Longo (Ontario signing-ready).
The will-switching event took place on 5 August 2016 in the Windsor office of Shibley Righton LLP, in the presence of Lucy Ceylan, Betty Ceylan, Armin Ceylan, Crystal Rivard, Ivana Hrvatin, and Bart Seguin. In Lucy’s own words (Part 1 of her 7-part narrative, email ID 204490, 2,288 words):
“Bart handed us a copy of Raffi’s supposed last known Will. My brother, Armin and I sitting together quickly started to scan over the many pages, and we also quickly browsed to the last pages to see if it was signed, and saw that it was. Within a short while later, Bart asked us for that copy back, as he switched it with another copy to which he right then with a pen wrote the word ‘copy’ on it and handed it to us as a copy to take home for our own records. And at which time Bart then quickly wrapped things up and sent my mother, my brother, Crystal and I all on our ways. And we didn’t even look over the copy of the Will again until we got home. As we noticed that this ‘copy’ wasn’t signed. … No different than giving us toilet paper.”
“Us having suspicions as to why we were provided with an unsigned copy of the Will we then started asking Bart/Shibley Righton office for a SIGNED copy of it, but we were boldly denied it for 3 weeks from Bart and his office were told by Bart that he and his office didn’t have signed copies of it.”
Lucy’s narrative is reproduced in full in Exhibit 24 · How it went down. The attached screenshots of the unsigned “copy” with Bart’s handwritten annotation are publicly posted in the Ceylan Lucy Timeline evidence gallery.
The purported Last Will and Testament of Raffi Ceylan is a mechanically-typed document with a handwritten annotation and a signature line. Francesco Longo’s inspection of the document filed in the Superior Court record shows:
In Canadian evidence law this is a prima facie indicator of forgery under the Criminal Code:
| Offence | Statute | Element shown |
|---|---|---|
| Forgery | s. 366 Criminal Code | Making of a false document with intent that it be used as genuine |
| Uttering a forged document | s. 368 Criminal Code | Knowingly tendering the false document to the SCJ as though genuine |
| Fraud over $5,000 | s. 380(1)(a) Criminal Code | Causing the estate to transfer $607,228.71 to Ivana Hrvatin on the strength of the false instrument |
| Civil conspiracy | common law | Agreement and concerted action between Seguin, Hrvatin, and others to commit an unlawful act |
Even before the ink/typing analysis, the disposition on the face of the document is prima facie irrational. The purported Will gives everything to Ivana Hrvatin and nothing to:
Ivana Hrvatin at the time of Raffi’s death on 16 July 2016 was:
A rational testator — and Raffi by every observable pattern of his conduct was rational, a successful business owner, and devoted to his mother, twin sister, and brother — does not in his “last-minute” will cut out the family he has spent his life providing for and leave the entirety of his estate to an estranged spouse who is eight months pregnant with another man’s child. The disposition is not just suspicious; it is prima facie absurd. The absurdity is itself circumstantial evidence that the document does not reflect testamentary intent.
Full argument at Exhibit 21 · Raffi Disposition Absurdity.
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2016 | Raffi Ceylan dies (coroner: “inducible arrhythmia”; vomitus present, never tested) | Coroner’s report; Exhibit 17 |
| 18 Jul 2016 | Ivana + Darrel Lauzon remove Raffi’s work files from Crystal Rivard’s home before any will-reading | Lucy Part 1; Crystal Rivard testimony |
| 5 Aug 2016 | Will-switching at Shibley Righton LLP — signed original shown, substituted with unsigned “copy” | Lucy Part 1; Armin Affidavit; Betty Affidavit |
| 9 Aug 2016 | Ivana gives birth to Jax Barrette’s son | Public birth records; Lucy Part 1 |
| 12 Sep 2016 | Sun Life transfer-of-ownership with Crystal Rivard’s signature forged | Sun Life head-office notice (Pres. Nick DiRenzo); Lucy gallery 204491 |
| 31 Oct 2016 | CAD $607,228.71 from Sun Life deposited to Raffi’s TD account — pipeline to Ivana | TD deposit slip; Lucy Part 2 |
| 16 Nov 2016 | Seguin on tape tells Betty and Crystal “no cheque has gone to her in her name” — while the Sun Life notice sits in his file | Exhibit 19 (Seguin Admission Tape) |
The will is not the only forged document in the Ceylan estate record:
Per Imperial Oil v. Jacques 2014 SCC 66 and Finney v. Barreau du Québec 2004 SCC 36: where a party has fabricated one document in a series, the court is entitled to draw an adverse inference as to every document in that series produced by the same party.