He’s stated to have been charged with 5 crimes, together with sexual assault and rape, native Canadian police officers stated, based on the report. Stronach, 91, is now stated to be launched on bail.
In line with Reuters, the arrest was made within the Toronto suburb of Aurora. In line with the Peel Regional Police, the alleged sexual assaults are stated to have taken place from the Nineteen Eighties to 2023. In line with the report, Stronach’s lawyer in Canada “categorically” denied all allegations. Stronach’s lawyer in Austria, Michael Krüger, was unable to touch upon the case to the APA. His former assistant Carolin Handl additionally knew nothing concerning the allegations. Nonetheless, in an interview with the APA, she emphasised that – so long as she labored for Stronach – she all the time perceived him as a “particular person of nice integrity.” She might “not think regarding that these allegations are true.”
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Reuters quoted Stronach’s Canadian lawyer Brian Greenspan as saying that Stronach was trying ahead to the chance to completely reply to the allegations “and to uphold his legacy as a philanthropist and icon of Canadian enterprise.” Police stated, based on Reuters, that Stronach had been launched on bail and would seem at a later date within the Ontario Courtroom of Justice in Brampton.
The Magna Group stated it had no data of the investigation or the allegations made. It additionally identified that Stronach has had no connection to Magna since he gave up management in 2010.
In 2012, Stronach entered Austrian politics: He based “Group Stronach” and represented him within the Nationwide Council and a number of other state parliaments. Nonetheless, he personally withdrew from the mandate he had received within the 2013 Nationwide Council election in January 2014 – on election night time, the then 81-year-old was already upset that the Austrians had not even given him six p.c of the vote. The celebration dissolved once more in 2017.
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