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Canadian Fashion Executive Indicted for Sex Trafficking and Racketeering
Canadian fashion executive Peter J. Nygard has been indicted with racketeering, sex trafficking, and related crimes that involved women and minor girls over the course of 25 years, the Southern District of New York announced on Tuesday.
Nygard, 79, Finish Canadian former executive, allegedly committed racketeering, sex trafficking, and related crimes in the past few decades, with at least a dozen victims from the United States, Bahamas, Canada, and other places.
Nygard was arrested on Dec. 14, in Winnipeg, Manitoba province, Canada, at the request of U.S. authorities.
According to the indictment, in the past 25 years, Nygard and his co-conspirators allegedly forced, deceived, and coerced women and minors to have sex with Nygard and others. Nygard has been targeting those women and minor-aged girls who were mostly from disadvantaged economic backgrounds. Nygard controlled these women and young girls with thre
The Canadian fashion mogul, Peter Nygard, has been charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and other crimes targeting dozens of women and underage girls over a quarter-century in three countries, US authorities said on Tuesday.
Canadian police arrested Nygard in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Monday at the United States government’s request under the countries’ extradition treaty.
Acting US Attorney Audrey Strauss in Manhattan said Nygard, 79, had since 1995 used his influence and businesses to “recruit and maintain” victims in the US, Canada and the Bahamas to sexually gratify himself and his associates.
Nygard made an initial appearance in a Winnipeg court, where he wore a white face mask, a grey sweatshirt and sweatpants, with his long white hair pulled back in a bun.
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Fashion Mogul Nygard Arrested On Sex Trafficking Charges
Law360 (December 15, 2020, 2:35 PM EST) Embattled fashion mogul Peter J. Nygard has been arrested in Canada to face racketeering and sex trafficking charges in the U.S., federal prosecutors said Tuesday, unsealing a nine-count indictment alleging a decades-long pattern of criminal conduct across multiple countries.
Nygard was arrested Monday in Winnipeg, Manitoba, by Canadian authorities at the request of federal prosecutors, the U.S. attorney s office in Manhattan said in a statement Tuesday. The nine-count indictment mirrors allegations of 57 women in an ongoing civil suit accusing Nygard of rape and sex trafficking.