Stunning model Lauren Mochen was readying for a romantic trip to the Bahamas with beau NHL player Arthur Kaliyev in the summer of 2023 when the first serious signs of trouble surfaced.

About a month before the trip, the 24-year-old onetime New York Ranger told his then-21-year-old girlfriend that his mother, Rumiya, gave him a check that he wanted to give to her.

Kaliyev, an Uzbekistan-born forward who was playing for the Los Angeles Kings at the time, told his girlfriend that it was to repay her for the money he had “accidentally’’ taken from Mochen’s PayPal account to pay workers at his family’s shipping company.

The hockey player, whom the adult-content model had allowed access to her PayPal account, said he intended to use his mother’s $400 check to pay back a portion of the amount

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