Peter Nygard, the Canadian fashion retailer, has been indicted on charges of sex-trafficking, racketeering and other crimes involving dozens of women, some of them underage, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Tuesday.
Mr. Nygard, 79, was accused of “a decades-long pattern of criminal conduct” in the United States, the Bahamas and Canada, prosecutors said.
Mr. Nygard was arrested in Winnipeg on Monday at the request of the United States under an extradition treaty, the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan said in a statement.
The prosecutors said that Mr. Nygard used the influence of his company and its employees to “recruit and maintain adult and minor-aged female victims” over a 25-year period for the sexual gratification of himself and his associates.
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