Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach has been charged with additional criminal offences, Peel Regional Police said Wednesday.
“Investigators from the Peel Regional Police, Special Victims Unit, have identified additional victims and additional charges have been laid,” Peel Const. Tyler Bell-Morena told CBC News in an emailed statement.
Bell-Morena said the newly announced charges include six counts of sexual assault, as well as two other criminal counts.
Police did not specify what years the further allegations stem from. A Peel police spokesperson declined to say how many additional alleged victims may be involved, and where Stronach was arrested on Wednesday.
Stronach’s lawyer, Brian Greenspan, said his client “denies and will vigorously defend these further untested allegations dating back to 1977.”
“He has spent his lifetime committed to the betterment of the Canadian community and industry,” Greenspan said.
“He plans to continue to devote his energy and resources to his work advocating for the adoption of a Canadian Economic Charter of Rights to benefit workers, small businesses, family farmers and the Canadian economy.”
5 other charges recently laid
Earlier this month, Stronach was charged with five offences, including rape and forcible confinement, against three women between 1980 and 2023. The charges have not been proven in court.
On those prior charges, Greenspan has previously said Stronach “categorically denies the allegations of impropriety which have been brought against him. He looks forward to the opportunity to fully respond to the charges and to maintain his legacy, both as a philanthropist and as an icon of the Canadian business community.”
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