Montreal-based multinational Future Electronics announced a new management team on Wednesday, while acknowledging that it had had a “difficult” week in the wake of a Radio-Canada report reporting the testimonies of women who say they were paid to offer sexual services. to the company’s owner, billionaire Robert Miller.
The show Investigation of Radio-Canada collected the testimonies of a dozen women who say they had sexual relations for money with Mr. Miller between 1994 and 2006. Six of them would have affirmed that they were minors at the time of the facts. The report described a whole system of recruitment, supervision and distribution of gifts as well as money for the girls.
Although he denies having anything to blame himself for, Robert Miller announced that he was resigning as president of Future Electronics last Friday. The company now announces that a new executive committee of nine people will make all strategic decisions for the multinational in coordination with the new president, Omar Baig.
According to information listed in the Quebec Business Register, Robert Miller and his son Rodney Miller have stepped down as president and directors of the company, but Robert Miller remains the owner of the holding company that owns Future Electronics.
“Mr. Miller strongly and vehemently denies the malicious allegations made against him and confirms that they are false and completely unsubstantiated and that they were raised following an acrimonious divorce. They are now repeated for financial gain, “said a press release issued by the company last Friday.
“Our management realizes that this has been a difficult week for the team at Future Electronics, but I am grateful to have the opportunity to lead this company and its wonderful employees,” Omar Baig, the new chairman, said in a statement. .
Robert Miller had already changed some of his financial arrangements in Quebec in recent years. In the summer of 2021, he donated his Westmount residence for $0 to a numbered company whose shareholders are not public. The value of the property was estimated at $7 million according to the deed of sale. The company that now owns the house is run by Me Jules Charette, a senior partner at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada, a specialist in taxation, trusts and estates.
“I can’t comment,” dropped M.e Charette, when questioned about the transaction with Mr. Miller. The lawyer, however, clarified that he had no knowledge of the young women’s allegations against the businessman when he agreed to lead the company which took possession of his house on behalf of him. ‘shareholders who are kept secret.