OTAWA –
The Supreme Courtroom of Canada won’t hear an enchantment from former style mogul Peter Nygard.
The excessive courtroom rejected a request for depart to enchantment over Nygard's extradition to the USA, the place he faces prices of intercourse trafficking and extortion.
Nygard needed a judicial evaluate of the order to extradite him, however the Manitoba Courtroom of Attraction rejected the request in Could and Nygard's legal professionals hoped to take the matter to the Supreme Courtroom.
As is widespread observe, the excessive courtroom didn’t give causes for its choice to not hear the case.
U.S. authorities sought Nygard's extradition from Canada on a nine-count indictment filed in New York, alleging that he engaged in unlawful actions for the aim of sexually abusing and trafficking girls and underage ladies.
Nygard, 83, founding father of a now-defunct girls's style firm, was convicted final yr of 4 counts of sexual assault in Toronto for crimes that occurred between the 1980s and the mid-2000s.
He was sentenced to 11 years in jail, minus roughly 4 years of credit score for time already spent in custody.
Nygard additionally faces one depend of sexual assault and one depend of forcible confinement in Quebec, in addition to sex-related prices in Winnipeg.
Not one of the prices towards Nygard in these jurisdictions, or in the USA, have been confirmed in courtroom. He has denied all allegations towards him and is interesting his convictions and sentence in Ontario.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Nov. 28, 2024.