Suspended Denesoline CEO Ron Barlas designed contracts which gave him the power to bankrupt the company “at his whim”, lawyers for Denesoline owner Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation argued in Northwest Territories Supreme Court on Friday.
An N.W.T. Supreme Court judge has also put the corporation Ron Barlas is the CEO and director of into the temporary care of a Calgary-based accounting firm.
The claims aren’t proven in court, but in a memorandum filed to the Supreme Court of Canada the Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation says Ron Barlas’s conduct “falls at the most egregious end of the spectrum of corporate wrongdoing.”