Police said Wednesday that Ontario businessman Frank Stronach now faces eight new sexual charges, as investigators identified new alleged victims of sexual assault.
Police in the Toronto suburb of Peel Regional Police said the 91-year-old billionaire was re-arrested Wednesday to be formally charged with six counts of sexual assault, one count of attempted rape and of one count of indecent assault against a woman.
Police did not immediately provide details of the charges.
Frank Stronach, founder of the automotive supplier Magna International, had already been charged earlier this month with one count of rape, one count of indecent assault against a woman, one count of false imprisonment and of two counts of sexual assault.
Court documents showed the businessman was accused of sexually assaulting three different complainants in events that allegedly occurred in the 1980s.
His lawyer, Brian Greenspan, said at the time that his client categorically denied the accusations against him.
Until 1983, the Canadian Criminal Code distinguished between the offenses of “indecent assault” and “rape” (forcible penetration). These charges are now consolidated into the count of “sexual assault”.
