FURIOUS: Marguerite Ragusa says her stepson, Martin Ragusa — pictured with Kashif Parvaiz and Nazish Noorani — had been brainwashed into signing over to Kashif his share of a building’s rent proceeds. (WILLIAM FARRINGON)
SUSPICIOUS DEAL: Kashif Parvaiz had closed a deal for a share in this $9 million apartment building in Hillcrest, Queens, just hours before her murder in an ambush, which police now say he had plotted with his secret paramour. (KENDALL RODRIGUEZ)
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The monster cut a $2 million real-estate deal just hours before his wife’s murder — courtesy of his elderly sugar daddy.
Less than two years ago, handsome alleged killer Kashif Parvaiz, 26, had persuaded a frail, older gay man to sign over to him his share of a Queens apartment building that is now about to be sold for more than $9 million, The Post has learned.
The contract for the sale was signed Tuesday — only hours before Parvaiz’s beautiful wife, Nazish Noorani, was blown away, allegedly by the hubby’s secret lover, in what cops say was a heinous plot cooked up by the both of them.
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Property records show that wealthy heir Martin Ragusa, 74, of Manhattan, who has used a wheelchair since suffering a stroke a decade ago, had given Parvaiz his 30 percent share in the 114-unit building at 80-25 Parsons Boulevard in Hillcrest in December 2009.
Ragusa’s family — alarmed over his increasingly bizarre relationship with the younger man — had tried to block the move, going to court just days before the scheduled transfer in a bid to take control of his finances, but failed.
The building is now under contract, set to be sold for $9.3 million in a deal scheduled to close next month, effectively giving Parvaiz $2 million of the proceeds, Ragusa’s outraged stepmother told The Post yesterday.
“We signed the contract Tuesday, and I think that’s why [Noorani] got killed then,” Marguerite Ragusa, 81, said from her waterfront home overlooking Jones Beach in Baldwin Harbor.
Hours after the sale was under contract, Noorani, 27, was shot through the heart on a quiet New Jersey street, allegedly by Antionette “Soni” Stephen, 26, Parvaiz’s lover.
The brutal crime — in which Parvaiz was shot four times but suffered only minor wounds — was designed to let the allegedly murderous couple start a new life together with a gigantic nest egg, Marguerite Ragusa charged.
“[Parvaiz] was a great con man. Why else would Marty [hand over his share]?” said Mrs. Ragusa, who owns a 20 percent share of the building.
Martin and Parvaiz met 12 years ago, when Parvaiz was 14 and doing maintenance work on Ragusa’s home at 440 E. 57th St., sources said.
Over the years, Parvaiz grew to have a Svengali-like hold on Martin, relatives said.
Mrs. Ragusa said that her stepson is gay and that the smooth-talking Parvaiz would often spend the night at his home, though she did not know if they had a sexual relationship.
“He’s a very handsome young man, and I know Marty liked him. He’d say, ‘He’s like a son to me,’ ” she recalled.
Martin Ragusa could not be reached yesterday.
Last week, after Noorani’s murder but before Parvaiz’s bust, Martin had tearfully told The Post on video how he, Parvaiz, Noorani and their kids had gone to see “The Smurfs” movie and then broken the Ramadan fast together Monday night, on the eve of Noorani’s murder.
“He ordered food, and I don’t eat that food, so . . . he got me some pizza,” Martin recalled of Parvaiz.
“As far as any friction between [Parvaiz and Noorani], I didn’t hear anything like that,” Martin said. “It’s just that she did not want to stay in Brooklyn” while Parvaiz was supposedly studying at Harvard in Boston.
“The last thing I said to Nazish . . . She was going for her driver’s test and flunked, and I said, ‘Try again,’ ” Martin said. “She said, ‘Pop, you think I should do that? I said, ‘Yes.’
“Who shoots a person nine times, especially a person who has kids?” Martin asked incredulously.
He repeatedly referred to Parvaiz as “my son” and proudly called him “a good student, a very good father and a very good husband.
“He graduated summa cum laude from Columbia [University]” Martin boasted. “They wanted him in Harvard . . . And he wanted that. Because he wanted to get that [architecture] degree to build anywhere he wanted to build.”
Martin was apparently unaware that Parvaiz never went to Harvard or Columbia.
“What a loving person,” he added of Parvaiz. “Of course, everything I have is his. And he knows that.”
Martin — a former Long Island hair-salon owner who inherited millions when his wealthy father, Albert, died 30 years ago — had been in a position to help out his young buddy financially.
In early 2007, each month, he gifted Parvaiz with his share of the rent that tenants in the Queens building paid — $7,000.
Mrs. Ragusa said her stepson also forked over a huge sum of money to Parvaiz for his supposed college tuition payments.
“Marty said, ‘I put him through college, and now he’s going to Harvard.’ But he didn’t go,” she recalled.
Parvaiz constantly badgered Martin to liquidate all of his assets, assuring the old man it would be better in the long run because he’d qualify for Medicare, a source said.
“We just couldn’t believe what was happening with Marty,” the source said. “He was completely brainwashed. No one recognized him anymore once Kash was in the picture.”
As Martin’s family grew more and more suspicious of Parvaiz, the crafty younger man tried to turn his elderly pal against them, saying his family was out to take his money, the source said.
Noorani’s family said yesterday that they knew Martin Ragusa — and said Parvaiz had boasted that Ragusa was going to leave him everything he owned when he died.
Noorani’s brother, Kaleem, said the family was aware that Martin had given Parvaiz $10,000 for his supposed studies but didn’t know about the additional windfalls.
A source close to the Ragusa family said Noorani’s relatives didn’t know Martin’s real identity, saying Parvaiz made Ragusa lie and say he was one of his college professors when he met his wife’s family four years ago at his older son’s first birthday party.
The sensational new details in the case emerged as the bad blood between Noorani and Parvaiz’s families continued — ratcheted up by an allegation that the alleged murderer’s mom once locked his pregnant wife in a room with a snarling dog.
“[Parvaiz’s mom] locked Nazish in a room with a dog after Nazish admitted to her that she was deathly afraid of dogs,” a relative of the victim told The Post.
The families are battling over custody of Noorani and Parvaiz’s sons, Riyaan, 5, and Shayann, 2.
The boys are with Parvaiz’s mother, who lives in Brooklyn.
Both Parvaiz and Stephen have been charged with murder.
Parvaiz was still in Morristown Hospital in New Jersey yesterday, but was expected to be transferred to the Morris County jail either today or tomorrow.
Stephen will be extradited to New Jersey from a Massachusetts prison after a hearing today or tomorrow. She remained held in lieu of $5 million bail.
Additional reporting by Josh Margolin, Amber Sutherland and Kevin Fasick