Montreal: Fashion executive Peter Nygard agreed at the Canadian court on Friday to be extradited to the United States where he faced charges of raping women and women, extortion and trade in women.
Detained in prison since his arrest in Winnipeg, Manitoba last December, the 80-year-old Finland-Canadian millionaire made a short court appearance through a video link.
Scott Farlinger, a lawyer who represented the Canadian government in this case, explained that Nygard, who had been denied guarantees on the grounds he might flard with witnesses or accusations, have chosen not to fight extradition.
“This process can now move forward so that he faces trials in the United States,” Brian Greenspan’s defense lawyer was confirmed.
That, he will give Nygard “the opportunity to arouse his defense and challenge the truth of the evidence that has been brought against it.” The Canadian Attorney General still has to approve extradition.
Nygard faces nine accusations in the United States involving dozens of victims – women and girls from disadvantaged economic backgrounds or who have the history of abuse that he prepares and is captivated on his luxury plantation on the grounds of favorable modeling opportunities.
The alleged crime, according to the US indictment, took place between 1990 and 2020.
Nygard and his accomplice, including employees of his group, “using strength, fraud, and coercion to cause women and minors, he said.
Nygard saved by a perman, known for His long and flowing hair and reasonable flamboyant, has denied the allegations With a late financer Jeffrey Epstein who was waiting for the trial in the sex trade costs when he committed suicide in New York prison in 2019.
According to Lisa Haba, a lawyer who represented a woman sued Nygard in class action, “Nygard was worse than Epstein”.
” believe he has more casualties, “he told AFP.” And he le Bih hard in the crime he committed “, including” very cruel rape (and) forced the victim to defecate him “.
The victim, he added, had suffered pain “for life and ate all”.
Nygard, the founder of the Nygard International Women’s clothing company, reportedly worth more than $ 850 million (US $ 670 million) in 2015, according to Business Canadian magazine.
He has long bragged about his resurrection from a humble start, as a young immigrant who built a fashion kingdom with nearly 170 stores at its peak.
His company, however, filed bankruptcy shortly after the FBI and the police raided Manhattan Nygard’s company headquarters last year.
Some women have joined the class action launched in February 2020, accusing him of attacking, raping and advertise them at his seaside mansion on the new providence island, some of them are teenagers.
According to court documents, company funds are said to have been used to organize dinner parties, poker games, and what is called “party pomper” where small girls are sedated and women are attacked if they do not obey their sexual demands.
Partygoers are often photographed and their personal information includes severe physical measurements and measurements stored in the registry.
Nygard also pays from a company account for victim travel, living expenses, plastic surgery, abortion and child support, the prosecutor said.
The video behind the screen by a Whistleblower who spent three years documenting Nygard showed him teasing a 16-year-old girl at the London 2012 Olympics, and a 17-year-old dancing on the stripper pole on Nygard’s Boeing 727 private plane.
“Nygard will go down and choose a girl.
Usually they will get drunk,” Stephen Feralio, who had been employed as a personal videographer Nygard, told CBC public broadcaster.
“If I don’t explain it, he will get away with all the things he did,” he said.