Billionaire businessman Frank Stronch, who is waiting for the case on more than a dozen allegations related to sexual harassment, is denying the allegations contained in a woman’s citizens in the trial, alleging that she had sexually assaulted her decades ago.
The woman alleged that Stronch beat her up when she was a student sponsored by Magna, the auto parts company was established.
In a claim filed in June, Jane Boon alleged that Stronch sexually assaulted him at a company guest house in December 1986 after drinking alcohol during a corporate party in Toronto.
She also alleges that Magna knew Stronch, who was the company’s controlled shareholder and director at the time, gave a risk to the women students who received sponsorship and did not take any steps to warn or protect them.
In a statement by Defense filed last week, Stronch denied “every and every allegation” in the Boon’s trial, including any sexual encounter with the woman.
Magna has also filed a statement of defense, stating that she has no knowledge of Stronch’s perceived conduct and is not responsible for her actions in any case.
If an inappropriate conduct was allegedly in the lawsuit, it was “not in part of the corporate functions, duties or obligations of Stronch, nor was it ahead of Magna Enterprise,” it says.
Stonch is asking the court to dismiss the Boon’s trial, saying that it is for “later efforts” to take advantage of other allegations against him.
The 92-year-old Tycoon was charged in 18 cases last year-including sexual harassment and indecent attack-13 related to complainants, dating back in the 1970s with some allegations.
He is expected to face tests at 12 counts in Toronto earlier next year, and requested not to be guilty in that case. Another test is prepared to be on the remaining count in the later pneumarket. Stonch has denied all the allegations against him.
Boon is not one of the complainants in criminal cases.
