CHAPTER SEVEN
The sister who refused to let her brother stay dead and silent
Ten years. 255+ recordings. One woman against the cartel.
When silence was no longer survivable
Raffi Ceylan died on July 16, 2016. By 2017, his sister Lucy Ceylan understood what had happened.
The coroner would not produce file 16SA198. The court would not hear discovery. The Law Society would not act. Sun Life paid the perjury-secured trustee. Lucy's own lawyer switched sides.
She had two choices: accept it, or document every single conversation from that point forward.
She chose the second.
WHILE THE INSTITUTIONS WERE QUIET
What was being done to the family she was documenting for.
BETTY CEYLAN
Lost her son to a sudden death she was never told the truth about. Lost his estate to a perjured affidavit. Lost contact with her own grandson. Suffered documented suicide attempts in the years that followed.
An elder citizen of Ontario, deprived of the truth about her own child's death and the proceeds of his estate, while the institutions that owed her a duty of care looked away.
ASHTON CEYLAN
A minor at the time of his father's death. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice declared him sole beneficiary of Raffi's estate on March 13, 2018.
A trust was established. The estate trustee was the same Ivana Hrvatin who had sworn under oath she was the sole beneficiary three months earlier.
In the years that followed, Ashton was kept from his grandmother Betty — the same Betty whose retainer paid for the very litigation that established his beneficiary right.
ARMIN CEYLAN
On August 19, 2017, Armin Ceylan was arrested by Windsor Police for trespassing on his own dead brother's property.
The arrest came thirteen months after Raffi's death, while the contested estate proceeding was still active. A family member, criminalised for being on a property his sibling had paid for and his estate had not yet resolved.
JULIE TRIFERIS
The sole eyewitness to the moment of Raffi's paralysis at the Chapleau camping property. The woman who watched him turn to her, still smiling, unable to move.
Displaced from the home she had shared with him in September 2016 — the same month Bart Seguin took his computer. The cartel's reach extended to the woman who had been there at the end.
A mother who attempted suicide. A child kept from his grandmother. A brother arrested for being on his sibling's land. A girlfriend displaced from the home where she watched her partner die.
This was what was happening to the family
while five regulated institutions did nothing.
It is also what Lucy was documenting for — on every one of those 255+ recordings.
One-party consent · lawful recording · architectural memory
Under Canadian law (Criminal Code, s. 184(2)(a)), a party to a private communication may lawfully record that communication. Lucy was a party to every conversation she had with the coroner's office, the lawyers, the police, the Law Society, and Sun Life.
She started recording. She did not stop.
255+
Total recordings
14
Verified audio exhibits with live URLs
68+
Confessions / admissions captured
Every call she could not get answered in writing — she got answered on tape.
Five institutions · fourteen verified recordings · one architectural picture
The Lawyers (3 recordings · 126.5 MB): Ray Hamlin · David Sundin · the conspiracy itself caught on tape.
The Coroner (2 recordings · 33.2 MB): Dr. Emily Groot · May 10 + May 14, 2019 · "On behalf of Dr. Cameron."
The Police (3 recordings · 55.5 MB): Superintendent Dan Potvin · Constable Lamant · Rod Durling · top-level obstruction admitted.
The Insurer (4 recordings · 101.5 MB): Don Arsenault × 2 · Janette Skeen · Sharron — Sun Life knowledge of the forgery captured across multiple representatives.
The Regulator (1 recording · 6.4 MB): Law Society of Ontario Agent Noe · confirming on tape that Mary Jo Nolan — the “retired” mediator on the case — shows in LSO records as ACTIVE AS A JUDGE.
The Attorney General (1 recording · 5:01): Lucy on the line with the Ontario Attorney General's office · reporting Ivana Hrvatin's perjured December 14, 2017 affidavit · EX-RAFFI-AUD-SG-009. The provincial chief law officer's own office was told the fact on tape and given the perjury exhibit by name.
Listen to the Attorney General call →
The Coordination Calls (2 recordings · 142.1 MB): The Conference Call (Sid · Susanna · Lucy · Guy — 1:17:00) and the extended Susanna Russo recording (68.2 MB).
Six institutions. Fifteen recordings. ~470 MB of admission.
Where the coordination is captured
EX-RAFFI-AUD-009
The Conference Call — Sid · Susanna · Lucy · Guy
73.9 MB · 1:17:00 of major coordination evidence
Multi-party coordination captured · institutional voice patterns documented
Listen to the recording →
EX-RAFFI-AUD-010
Susanna Russo — Extended Conversation
68.2 MB · longest single file in the archive
Extended detailed discussion of the architecture
Listen to the recording →
The architectural lesson
A regulator can dismiss a complaint. An institution can refuse a record. A judge can block a discovery. A lawyer can switch sides. An insurer can pay the wrong beneficiary. Each of those events, taken alone, looks like negligence or bureaucracy.
But when all five institutions act in coordination, on the same file, against the same family, over the same ten years — and when one woman captures ~465 MB of recorded admission across all of them —
You no longer have negligence.
You have an architecture.
"What does a regulator do
with ~465 MB of recorded admission
from five regulated institutions
on the same family file?"
In Lucy Ceylan's experience — over ten years — the answer is: nothing.
Five institutions captured on tape.
Ten years of architectural silence.
One sister who refused to let it stand.
And one Windsor Police Superintendent
who finally said it out loud.
FIFTEEN YEARS · ONE CHRONOLOGY
Every public-record event, every recording, every concealment — on one line.
2011
Lawyer: Bart Seguin (Shibley Righton)
What it says: Ivana has NO RIGHT to Raffi's life insurance. Raffi to designate Ashton as beneficiary.
Anomaly: Four versions of this agreement exist with different signatures. The negotiation history alone is not the smoking gun; the concealment of the executed version from the court for 1.5 years is. Date corrected per Francesco's BCSC Pass 11 Affidavit §D.3 from the 2012 entry in the master document.
July 16, 2016 · Chapleau, Ontario
Age: 42, healthy. Eyewitness: Julie Triferis (his girlfriend, in the bedroom).
Sequence: Jumping on bed → frozen smile (rigidity + conscious) → collapsed and threw up → dead. Matches strychnine onset-to-death timeline.
Coroner: Dr. Emily Groot — ordered NO toxicology test. First through the door: Daryl Lauzon (50%-co-owner of the unrelated Windsor property, never paid taxes, talked about 'who gets half the house' for the entire 10-hour drive back).
July-October 2016
Within DAYS of Raffi's death, Ivana submitted beneficiary-change forms to Sun Life and Empire Life claiming SHE is the beneficiary. Crystal's signature on the corporate-authorisation page was forged. The 2011 Separation Agreement (which she had personally signed) excluded her from life insurance entirely.
October 12, 2016
In the room: Crystal, Bill Benson (Sun Life), Lucy, Betty.
Crystal's exact words: "I DID NOT SIGN that form."
Recording: 68 minutes total (Part 1 + Part 2). Result: Sun Life had explicit notice of forgery and paid Ivana anyway.
November 7, 2016
Despite the October 12, 2016 notification, Sun Life completed the transfer of CAD $607,228.70 (the canonical figure from Francesco's BCSC Pass 11 Affidavit §F.3) to Ivana on November 7. 65 days after Raffi's death — the file does NOT show a 65-day investigation delay; it shows a 65-day fraudulent-transfer delay.
2016 → 2019
2016: First autopsy — one cause of death. 2017: Second autopsy — different cause. 2019: Third autopsy. Dr. Martin Queen REFUSED to sign the 2019 report. None of the three ordered a strychnine-specific toxicology screen.
April 28, 2017
Lucy's then-lawyer David Sundin wrote to opposing counsel acknowledging the 2011 Separation Agreement exists and excludes Ivana from the life insurance. Then he abandoned Lucy before trial. The Sundin / McTague Law / Drew Dilkens connection (Ch 9) is the canonical explanation.
December 6, 2017
Lucy recorded a follow-up call with Bill Benson (Sun Life). The call references the October 12, 2016 meeting and the forged-signature notification by date. 8.46 MB audio file — a Sun Life executive corroborating the timeline of the forgery notice from the institution's own side.
December 14-20, 2017
Standard processing time for a Certificate of Estate Trustee: ~42 days.
Raffi's estate Certificate: 6 days. Issuing judge: Paul R. Howard — founded the Shibley Righton Windsor office in the 1980s. Lawyer who benefited: Bart Seguin — Shibley Righton estate lawyer. Witness who signed the will: Paula Seguin — Bart's wife, Ivana's best friend of 30+ years. Disclosed conflicts: zero.
November 7, 2020
Darren's exact words (recorded): "Ivana paid people off. She bribed them to keep quiet about the insurance fraud."
Recording length: 80 minutes. Legal weight: direct third-party admission of bribery (Criminal Code s.119/120) and conspiracy (s.465).
2017 → 2025
Result: systematic obstruction at every institutional level.
January 8, 2026
Lucy asked Dr. Emily Groot directly: "Are you related to Norman Groot?"
Emily Groot's response: "How do you know Norman? Norman from where?" — evaded the relationship question entirely (Ch 2 audio Recording 1).
Norman Groot: convicted criminal cop (1999 Supreme Court of Canada), tried to extort Lucy $10,000 in a separate matter. Pattern: a family crime architecture spanning police, the coroner's office, and the lawyers (Ch 9 21-Defendants).
May 25, 2026 · TONIGHT
9 years 10 months since Raffi was poisoned on a camping trip.
9 years 6 months since Sun Life paid $607,228.70 with notice of forgery.
8 years 5 months since a 6-day Certificate was issued by a judge whose former firm benefited.
5 years 6 months since the Darren Janke confession went on tape.
THE ARCHIVE IS PUBLIC. THE EVIDENCE IS LINKED. THE SILENCE IS THE STORY.
DOWNLOAD THE CANONICAL EXHIBIT
The full canonical Exhibit 24 PDF documents Lucy Ceylan and Francesco Longo's January 31, 2026 joint cover memo — the institutional record of the moment Francesco formally took on the trifecta filing role for the Ceylan family. It is also the document that established the legal-counsel relationship that put Francesco's own life in the cross-hairs of the network catalogued throughout this archive.