(Toronto) Court documents show that Ontario billionaire Frank Stronach is accused of sexually assaulting seven people from 1977 until last February, which would bring the number of alleged victims to 10.
Published yesterday at 2:20 p.m.
Sonja Puzic
The Canadian Press
Court documents filed Friday provide additional information about the eight new charges police filed Wednesday against Mr. Stronach.
The 91-year-old man was first arrested in early June on five sexual charges involving three different complainants. Peel Regional Police, a suburb of Toronto, explained Wednesday that new alleged victims then came forward.
Court documents filed at the Brampton courthouse shed more light on these latest charges, which stem from events that allegedly occurred in and around Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario.
The Ontario billionaire is accused of attempted rape and indecent assault on a woman between June 1977 and January 1978. He is also accused of having sexually assaulted six other people in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. and earlier this year, according to court documents.
The five charges filed in early June involved alleged crimes dating back to the 1980s and up to 2023.
His lawyer, Brian Greenspan, has already indicated that his client denies all accusations and that he intends to “vigorously” clear his reputation.
“He spent his life getting involved for the good of his community and the good of Canadian industry,” wrote Mr.e Greenspan in a statement this week, saying Mr. Stronach plans to continue this work.
The accused is due to appear in the Brampton courthouse on July 8.
An SME that became a giant
Frank Stronach, born in Austria in 1932, became one of Canada’s richest people when he founded Magna in his garage in 1957 and grew it into one of the world’s largest auto parts suppliers.
He also founded The Stronach Group, a horse racing company, and Stronach International in 2018, a company focused on organic food and “electric micromobility.”
Mr Stronach resigned as chairman of Magna in 2011 and founded his own political party in his native Austria the following year.
He is the father of former Canadian politician Belinda Stronach, who was a Conservative MP before crossing the floor of the House of Commons to join the Liberals in 2005.
In 2018, Frank Stronach filed a more than $500 million lawsuit against his daughter, two grandchildren and a former business associate, alleging they mismanaged the family’s assets and plotted to take control of them. The suit was settled out of court in 2020, which split the family fortune between two factions.
