The sexual-assault charges laid this week against Canadian business magnate Frank Stronach involve new allegations from seven complainants dating back to the late 1970s.
The details of the latest charges are outlined in a court document that bring the total number of alleged victims to 10. The 91-year-old founder of Magna International was charged earlier this month with the sexual assault of three women.
Mr. Stronach has issued statements through his lawyer denying the allegations.
The court document, sworn by Peel Regional Police earlier this week and made public Friday, include two charges that allege Mr. Stronach indecently assaulted and attempted to rape one woman between June, 1977, and January, 1978, in Toronto.
The document also says Mr. Stronach is charged with six counts of sexual assaults involving six complainants alleged to have occurred in Toronto in 1983; Toronto in 1988; Scarborough in 1990; Aurora, Ont., between January, 1999, and December, 2003; Aurora, between September, 2001, and June, 2002; and Gormley, Ont., in February of this year.
Mr. Stronach’s lawyer, Brian Greenspan, declined to comment on Friday and instead pointed to a statement he released earlier in the week.
“Mr. Stronach denies and will vigorously defend these further untested allegations dating back to 1977,” that statement says.
Mr. Stronach walked out of a Peel Regional Police station early on Wednesday afternoon wearing a dark suit and accompanied by two men and a driver before departing in a dark grey Cadillac.
On June 7, Peel Regional police laid five charges against Mr. Stronach as part of a sex-assault investigation. Investigators say those alleged attacks took place in 1980, 1986 and 2023. Those charges included allegations of rape, indecent assault, forcible confinement and two counts of sexual assault.
Mr. Stronach founded the company that became Magna International in the 1950s. It became one of the world’s largest auto-parts makers, and today employs 179,000 people in 28 countries.
He departed Magna 14 years ago and has “had no affiliation” with it since, company spokesperson Tracy Fuerst has said. Forbes magazine in 2018 estimated Mr. Stronach’s wealth at US$1.5-billion, but no longer includes him in its rankings.