A Montreal businessman has been charged with second-degree murder and the concealment of a corpse after the body of his nine-year daughter, Melina, was found over the weekend in New York state, where the two were are vacation.

Luciano Frattolin, the father of Melina Frattolin, now faces charges of second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse.

Canadian father Luciano Frattolin was expected to return his daughter to her mother in Montreal, police said. Later, he allegedly reported two men in a "suspicious white van" had taken Melina Frattolin from his vehicle.