Peter Nygard, a former executive at the fashion company of his multinational Nygard International, has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face sex trafficking fees on minors and women and extortion for more than 25 years, a Canadian government lawyer said at a court hearing Friday.
Nygard, who denies the charges, could spend the rest of his life in a crime if convicted.
Since his arrest through the Canadian government last year at the request of the United States under the two countries’ extradition treaty, the 80-year-old fashion mogul has been held in an open-air prison in Winnipeg, where he has failed in his bail attempts. .
U. S. prosecutors said Nygard hosted “parties to be pampered” at various locations across the United States, his homes in Marina del Rey, California and the Bahamas.
He allegedly used the resources of his company, Nygard International Partnership, to control the sick through threats, false promises of career advancement, surveillance and physical isolation.
Nygard also faces allegations dating back to 1995 from underage women and women from disadvantaged backgrounds in her program that concerned sexual assaults through illegal drugs without the victims’ knowledge.
Earlier this week, Toronto police issued an arrest warrant for Nygard for alleged sexual assault between 1987 and 2005, with six counts of sexual assault and 3 counts of forced confinement, to the Toronto Star.
Canada’s justice minister will have to decide whether to move Nygard to the United States, said Scott Farlinger, an attorney for Canada’s attorney general, who represents the U. S. government.
Nygard resigned as president of Nygard International, a multinational women’s fashion company she founded in 1967, in February 2020, after the U. S. government raided Nygard International’s Manhattan headquarters as part of an investigation into sex trafficking allegations. bankruptcy in Canada and the United States a month after the raid. Bankruptcy filings in Canada show Nygard’s company had 150 million Canadian dollars more in liabilities than in assets, the New York Times reported. The company had approximately 170 retail outlets in North America and more than 6,000 breakdown retail stores and hired more than 1,400 other people when it filed for bankruptcy.
Nygard allegedly touted his stories of hedonism and mobile injections into the scion, and the Washington Post said he presented himself as a playboy seen with women younger than himself at parties to see the Oscars in Beverly Hills. Nygard was born in Finland and raised in Manitoba. He was ranked as the 80th richest Canadian in 2009 with a net worth of $817 million, according to Canadian Business Magazine.
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