MONTREAL — Former Canadian trend mogul Peter Nygard appeared in a Montreal courtroom remotely on Tuesday for the primary of a two-day preliminary listening to on one rely of sexual assault and one rely of forcible confinement.
Nygard, the founding father of a defunct worldwide ladies’s clothes firm, is dealing with trial for incidents that allegedly came about between Nov. 1, 1997, and Nov. 15, 1998. The alleged sufferer’s id and the proof being introduced this week in Quebec court docket are topic to a publication ban. Quebec prosecutors charged Nygard in March 2022.
A decide has permitted Nygard, 83, to look remotely from a federal establishment in Ontario the place he’s serving time. The founding father of Nygard Worldwide was wheeled right into a room in a wheelchair, carrying a heavy coat, a ball cap and glasses.
He was sentenced in September 2024 to 11 years in jail after he was discovered responsible on 4 counts of sexual assault in Toronto for offences from the Nineteen Eighties to mid-2000s. Throughout sentencing, Ontario Superior Court docket Justice Robert Goldstein known as Nygard a “sexual predator” and “a Canadian success story gone very improper.”
Minus time served in pretrial custody, Nygard has about seven years left to serve in Ontario, and is eligible for a parole listening to after two years in jail.
Nygard can also be dealing with sex-related charges in Manitoba, and U.S. authorities have sought his extradition on a nine-count indictment filed in New York, alleging he was concerned in criminal activity for the aim of sexually abusing and trafficking ladies and underage women. The fees in opposition to Nygard in Manitoba or within the U.S. haven’t been examined in court docket.
In November 2024, the Supreme Court docket of Canada introduced it will not hear a request by Nygard for a judicial assessment of the order to extradite him to the U.S. In 2022, then-federal justice minister David Lametti dominated that Nygard could possibly be extradited as soon as his authorized circumstances in Canada are settled.
Nygard has denied all of the allegations in opposition to him, and is interesting his convictions and sentence in Ontario.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Jan. 28, 2025.
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