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The model ex-girlfriend of an NHL player has accused him of stealing thousands of dollars from her to fund his gambling problem. Arthur Kaliyev, who signed a contract with the Ottawa Senators in the offseason, is facing serious allegations and potential charges from his former girlfriend, Lauren Mochen. Mochen, an adult-content model, claims that the forward would borrow large sums of money from her, ask for access to her PayPal account and use her to cash fraudulent checks, citing problems with his own online bank accounts. She alleges in a series of videos on TikTok that Kaliyev would use her to hide a gambling habit and that the issue spiraled into the hockey player scamming her out of $50,000. The Daily Mail has contacted a representative for Kaliyev but has yet to hear back. Mochen alleges that the former New York Rangers player claimed that his family was physically abusive and had control of his finances including his NHL salary, suggesting that he was afraid of them. He allegedly claimed to Mochen that his bank accounts had been frozen as a result of his family's financial dealings, which resulted in a lengthy three-year saga of Kaliyev borrowing or taking money from her accounts to fund his lifestyle and what she alleged to be a rampant gambling habit. Mochen, a Michigan native, told The New York Post that the first sign of trouble arose in the summer of 2023, about a year into their relationship. About one month before they were scheduled to go away on a romantic couple's vacation to the Bahamas for his birthday, Mochen claims that Kaliyev, who was playing for the Los Angeles Kings at the time, told her that he had received a check worth $400. He allegedly told his then 21-year-old girlfriend that intended to give the check to her in order to repay her a portion of the 'around $15,000' that he had 'accidentally' taken from her PayPal account to pay workers at his family's shipping company. Without questioning her boyfriend, Mochen deposited the check. What followed was a pattern of similar incidents that included a check for $1,500, two checks for $2,300 apiece and another for $1,000 in the span of about a week, for a total of $7,500. Mochen then cashed the multiple checks from Kaliyev's family and sent him the money digitally at his request on the belief it was because of his account issues. She was also under the belief that he would then transfer at least a chunk of that money from the checks back to her to repay her for the thousands he 'accidentally' sent out from her PayPal account. However, when they returned from the Bahamas, Mochen discovered that her bank account was $7,500 overdrawn. The bank reportedly told her that each of the checks that she had banked from Kaliyev had bounced after she had already transferred her own money to him. 'The bank was like, "No, you need to pay the difference. Your account is negative, and once you do, we're going to close your accounts. You can't have an account with us anymore,"' Mochen, who admitted she was 'gullible,' told The New York Post. The incident, she claims was just the first of a three-year-long saga, in which Kaliyev would scam her out of tens of thousands of dollars amid what she alleges to have been a gambling addiction. 'I funded like his entire life the [2023-24] season,' Mochen told The Post. 'Anything he needed, I was paying for. 'It was unfortunate, but he [told me his family was] taking his payroll, they're such scary people. But then randomly, [he'd] just show up in new Gucci shoes. 'He did some strange things. If the TV was on, and it wasn't a sporting game, the TV had to be off. He refused to watch anything besides sports. 'He behaved as if he had bets placed on every single game that was on my TV. He would sit there checking his phone, checking and flipping back and forth between games.' Mochen claims that Kaliyev would use Snapchat, a communication app where messages disappear after 24 hours, to discuss finances. It was on the platform that he asked for access to her PayPal account. Mochen granted him access but, unbeknownst to her, he used her personal information to setup a new account under a different phone number. From that account he allegedly stole a large sum of money in addition to the reported $14,114.88 he already owed her from her original PayPal account. Following their breakup, Mochen filed an incident report on September 4 at the police station in Saginaw Township, her hometown in Michigan in order to dispute charges with her financial institution related to Kaliyev's alleged fraud. She has also said that she intends to press further charges against Kaliyev. However, the hockey player has not been charged. The couple first started dating during Kaliyev's first full season with the Kings in 2022 and stayed together throughout his recent stint with the New York Rangers last season before their relationship came to an end in summer. Mochen claimed towards the end of their relationship that she reached out to his sister, Elvina, on Instagram in March and informed her of the incidents that had been occurring. However, not only was Elvina aware of the gambling she reportedly informed Mochen that it was the reason that their parents had seized control of Kaliyev's finances. Kaliyev was picked up by the Senators in the offseason who signed him to a one-year $775,000 deal. He played a couple of games with the NHL team last month and is now assigned to their AHL affiliate in Belleville, Ontario. According to Mochen, she isn't the only victim of Kaliyev's scheme. Kaliyev reportedly owed several Kings players 'around $50,000' over the years for a collection of 'fines, fees, group bets and betting pools.' The Daily Mail has reached out to the NHL regarding the allegations. When contacted, the Senators referred all inquiries to the league. The Kings trainers were reportedly the first to raise questions over Kaliyev's gambling habits as early as his rookie season in 2021-22. The organization reportedly held a discussion with Kaliyev and his agent, Ian Pulver, over the allegations but both denied them.
