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Automotive billionaire Frank Stronach, 91, is arrested again on eight new sexual assault and rape charges as investigators claim they ‘have identified additional victims’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6ae06b5e8f54ad9a85eec7138705174a" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;271b1b&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Billionaire Frank Stronach&comma; 91&comma; is arrested again on eight new sexual assault and rape charges as investigators claim they &&num;8216&semi;have identified additional victims&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-98a77904b8d7477091013629841bd648" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;271b1b&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Stronach&comma; the founder of auto-parts giant Magna&comma; was accused on June 7&comma; of sexually assaulting three women beginning in the 1980s and lasting up until 2023 <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e7a02ee52fb3106a9137476ba10b2d31" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;271b1b&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He was initially facing five criminal offenses&comma; including rape&comma; sexual assault&comma; indecent assault on a female&comma; and forcible confinement <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d1d6036c1c8a5dfa9af66bf81fdd5c5e" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;271b1b&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Those charges have not been proven in court <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d6ef65a8308f36ca8ac033e5fff7785a" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;271b1b&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Police said Wednesday that they &&num;8216&semi;have identified additional victims&&num;8217&semi; and charged him with eight more counts of sexual assault <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a838c303f503d009a9b66d7d7f906e87" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;271b1b&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Peel Regional Police previously said that there were multiple accusers<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;06&sol;Frank-Stronach-7-1024x714&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-463653"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Austrian-Canadian automotive billionaire Frank Stronach&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; 91&comma; was initially arrested <strong>on June 7&comma;<&sol;strong> in the posh Toronto suburb of Aurora and charged with five counts of sexual battery&period; Yesterday he was again arrested on more counts of sexual assault and rape after new complaints surfaced<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Automotive billionaire Frank Stronach has been arrested once again&comma; and is now facing even more sexual assault and rape charges&period;<br>91-year-old Stronach&comma; founder of auto-parts giant Magna&comma; was initially arrested early June on several counts of sexual assault involving three women&comma; beginning in the 1980s and lasting up until 2023&period;<br>He was then charged with five criminal offenses&comma; including rape&comma; sexual assault&comma; indecent assault on a female&comma; and forcible confinement&period; Those charges are yet to be been proven in court&period;<br>On Wednesday&comma; Peel Regional Police said they &&num;8216&semi;have identified additional victims&&num;8217&semi; and charged him with eight more counts of sexual assault&period; <br>The eight new charges include six counts of sexual assault&comma; one count attempted rape and one count of indecent assault on a female&comma;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thestar&period;com&sol;news&sol;ontario&sol;billionaire-businessman-frank-stronach-facing-eight-additional-charges-police&sol;article&lowbar;ff6f5c4e-26f1-50cb-b1f3-065662571c50&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener"> the Toronto Star reports&period;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;06&sol;Frank-Stronach-3&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-463638" style&equals;"width&colon;800px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Stronach launched his automotive parts supply business&comma; Magna&comma; in his garage&period; In <strong>67 years <&sol;strong>Magna has grown into one of the world&&num;8217&semi;s biggest players in the sector&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Peel Regional Police Constable Tyler Bell previously noted that there were multiple accusers&comma; while declining to specify the potential number of victims out there&comma; said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Obviously&comma; this is a high-profile case&period; Our special victims unit is bound to protect the victims and in doing so that&&num;8217&semi;s why we&&num;8217&semi;re being vague&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Bell said&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;There is more than one victim but we won&&num;8217&semi;t confirm that number yet&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he added&period;<br>It remains unclear how many additional victims may have come forward to accuse Stronach of sexual assault since his arrest on June 7&period;<br>One alleged victim is said to have reached out to police within hours of the first charges being announced&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cbc&period;ca&sol;news&sol;canada&sol;frank-stronach-additional-charges-peel-police-1&period;7247553" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">CBC<&sol;a>&comma; reports&period;<br>Another woman&comma; author Jane Boon&comma; also claimed in an <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;theglobeandmail&period;com&sol;opinion&sol;article-i-had-sex-with-frank-stronach-when-i-was-19-ive-wrestled-with-its&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">op-ed <&sol;a>that Stronach had sex with her when she was just 19 years old and he was 54&period;<br>She wrote that the Austrian-Canadian businessman interviewed her when she was a high school student and selected her for a scholarship to GMI &&num;8211&semi; now Kettering University &&num;8211&semi; in Flint&comma; Michigan to study engineering&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;06&sol;Frank-and-Elfriede-Stronach-th-their-daughter-Belinda-Stronachcenter-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-463636" style&equals;"width&colon;841px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Frank Stronach seen &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; with his late wife&comma; Elfriede&comma; and daughter&comma; Belinda&comma; &lbrack;center&rsqb;&comma; was named to the Order of Canada&comma; one of the nation&&num;8217&semi;s most prestigious honors <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">While in school in 1986&comma; she claimed she attended Magna&&num;8217&semi;s annual shareholders meeting and was invited to an afterparty at Stronach&&num;8217&semi;s Toronto restaurant&comma; Rooney&&num;8217&semi;s&period;<br>Towards the end of the dinner&comma; Boon said Stronach insisted on driving her to Magna&&num;8217&semi;s corporate guest house in Ontario&comma; and they had sex&period;<br>Boon has not complained to cops about the incident<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;theglobeandmail&period;com&sol;canada&sol;article-canadian-business-tycoon-frank-stronach-faces-new-allegations-from&sol;&quest;login&equals;true" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">&comma; according to the Globe and Mail<&sol;a>&comma; but said she is now feeling uneasy about the encounter&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;At the time&comma; I thought it was consensual&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she wrote&period; &&num;8216&semi;But if it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t rape&comma; it certainly wasn&&num;8217&semi;t right&period;&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;06&sol;Jane-Boon-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-463646" style&equals;"width&colon;785px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Author Jane Boon&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; claimed in an oped that she and Stronach had sex with her when she was just 19 and he was 54&period; Her write up says &&num;8216&semi;At the time&comma; I thought it was consensual&period; But if it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t rape&comma; it certainly wasn&&num;8217&semi;t right&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Stronach was due to appear in Ontario court on July 8&comma; prior to the new charges being levied against him&period; It is unclear whether that court date will still stand&period; <br>His counsel&comma; high flying lawyer Brian Greenspan has said his billionaire client denies the allegations &&num;8216&semi;and will vigorously defend these further untested allegations dating back to 1977&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>He noted that Stronach &&num;8216&semi;has spent his lifetime committed to the betterment of the Canadian community and industry&&num;8217&semi; and said he now &&num;8216&semi;plans to continue to devote his energy and resources to his work advocating for the adoption of a Canadian Economic Charter of Rights to benefit workers&comma; small businesses&comma; family farmers and the Canadian economy&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;06&sol;Frank-Stronach-5-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-463643" style&equals;"width&colon;795px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Stronach&&num;8217&semi;s counsel&comma; high flying lawyer has said his billionaire client denies the allegations &&num;8216&semi;and will vigorously defend these further untested allegations dating back to 1977<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;06&sol;Frank-Stronach-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-463640" style&equals;"width&colon;813px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Outside of business&comma; Stronach dabbled in politics&comma; forming the Austrian political party Team Stronach in 2013&period;<&sol;strong> <strong>Some of the entrepreneur&&num;8217&semi;s other business ventures include The Stronach Group&comma; a company that specializes in horse racing<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Born in Austria in 1932&comma; Stronach grew up under Nazi rule before moving to Canada in the mid-50s&period;<br>In 1957&comma; the entrepreneur launched Magna in his garage&comma; and over the years&comma; he built it into one of the world&&num;8217&semi;s biggest suppliers of auto parts&period;  <br>The company now has a market capitalization of &dollar;12&period;52 billion and in a spokesperson for the company in a statement noted that &&num;8216&semi;Stronach has had no affiliation with Magna since he relinquished control in 2010&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>Emphasizing that executives at the company had &&num;8216&semi;no knowledge of the investigation or the allegations that have been raised beyond what has been reported in the media&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>He resigned as Magna’s chairman in 2011&period; However in 2018&comma; the billionaire sued his daughter Belinda&comma; two grandchildren&comma; and former business associate Alon Ossip for over &dollar;500 million in Ontario Superior Court&period; <br>Stronach alleged that they had mismanaged the family&&num;8217&semi;s assets&comma; of which he wished to regain control&period; <br>Belinda&comma; a former Canadian Member of Parliament and CEO of Magna&comma; counter sued her father&comma; saying that he had lost an enormous amount of money on pet projects&period; <br>The &dollar;500 million lawsuit was eventually settled&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;06&sol;Belinda-Stronach-with-her-dad-Frank-Stronach-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-463637" style&equals;"width&colon;848px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>In a bid to regain control of Magna Stronach &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; in 2018 sued his daughter&comma; two grandchildren&comma; and former business associate Alon Ossip&comma; alleging they had mismanaged the family&&num;8217&semi;s assets&period; Belinda Stronach &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; eventually counter sued her dad alleging he lost an enormous amount of money on pet projects <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Some of the entrepreneur&&num;8217&semi;s other business ventures included the creation of The Stronach Group&comma; a company that specializes in horse racing&period;  He also founded Stronach International in 2018&comma; a company focusing on organic foods and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;micro-electric mobility&period;”<br>In 2013&comma; Stronach made a return to Austria&comma; where he dabbled in politics by founding and leading a populist right-wing political party called Team Stronach for Austria&period; <br>Two months later&comma; Stronach moved back to Canada&comma; where he named to the Order of Canada&comma; one of the nation&&num;8217&semi;s most prestigious distinctions&period; <br>Stronach&&num;8217&semi;s wife Elfriede passed away at the age of 80&comma; in March after battling illness&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;

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