Trial in Ontario for a criminal quebecers out of the ordinary

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Sunday, 14 January 2018 19:11

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TORONTO | criminal québécois, which has changed her identity and rebuilt her life in Ontario after he testified in a trial against the Hells Angels are back in the hot water.

Robert Vanier is accused in the superior Court of Ontario in Toronto to have lied in an affidavit about his double-identity and his criminal record when registering a business in oil trading, brought the “Toronto Star”.

The charges of perjury had been filed in its place there are four and a half years by the royal canadian mounted police of Canada (RCMP), but Vanier has often managed to do, adjourn the proceedings for health reasons. Last summer, a judge refused his request to cancel the trial due to unreasonable delay.

Double identity

Born in Quebec under the name of Carl Gagnon, Vanier had already been convicted of more than 70 charges when he joined the witness protection program for having testified against the Hells Angels in the late 1990s. He then changed his name and resurfaced in London in Ontario at the beginning of the years 2000.

For a few years, he has worked with millionaires, politicians, and hockey players to convince them to invest in his oil company, Onco Petroleum. Through an alleged false statement under oath, Onco Petroleum has been able to register as a public company on the stock exchange CNQ in 2007. In six months, the action of Onco went from 5 $ to 15 cents. An order prohibiting any transaction in this stock was imposed in July 2008. The RCMP felt that the 1400 investors lost approximately $30 million.

After a series of articles of the journal “London Free Press” on the true identity of Vanier in 2010, several investors of Onco Petroleum had even threatened to sue the RCMP and police in Quebec for not having informed the authorities of ontario, about the double life of Vanier.

Defence

According to the “Toronto Star”, Vanier was rather relaxed last Thursday when he was cross-examined an officer of the RCMP, called by the Crown to link the fingerprints of the accused. For his part, Gagnon has not called witnesses.

Friday, during a short closing speech, Vanier has not denied having lied under oath. It has, however, indicated to the judge Julie Thorburn that the Crown had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was indeed Robert Vanier.

The trial will resume on January 25.