Peter Nygard transferred to Toronto to face sexual assault charges

Disgraced former fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been transferred to Toronto from Winnipeg to face multiplechargesof sexual assault, CBCNews has learned.

Winnipeg police confirmed Thursday they assisted Toronto police in executing a warrant for Nygard's arrest and he was transportedto Toronto.

Toronto police issued the arrest warrant on Oct. 1, stating Nygard was being charged with six counts of sexual assault and three counts of forcible confinement, for incidents that allegedly happened between 1987 and 2006.

This comes more than 10months after he was chargedwith a number of offences in the United States.

Nygard, 80, has been in custody since he was arrested at a Winnipeg house on Dec. 14, 2020.

He is charged in the U.S. with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy related to "a decades-long pattern of criminal conduct involving at least dozens of victims in the United States, the Bahamasand Canada," according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

On the same day the Toronto charges were announced, Nygardsigned a consent formagreeing to bypassthe court extradition process and move straight to ministerial review by Justice Minister David Lametti.

A spokesperson for the federal justice department said Lametti has not made a decision to order Nygard's surrender to the United States. The spokesperson said itwill also be up to the minister to decide whether Nygard'sextradition would await the outcome of the Canadian charges.

Nygard's lawyer Brian Greenspan said earlier this month that although his client has agreed to move ahead with the extradition process, he still maintains his innocence.

"As in the past, Mr. Nygard denies any allegations of criminal conduct. He denies any suggestion that he engaged in conduct for which he should be charged criminally," he said outside the Winnipeg law courts on Oct. 1.

Jay Prober, another lawyer representing Nygard, said he is scheduled to appear in court in Toronto on Friday.