Louis Nagy, 64, sentenced in 2019 to four years and eight months in prison for plotting the importation of tons of drugs, obtains day parole and is sent to a halfway house.
Nagy and other individuals were arrested in 2013 following an investigation by Division C (Quebec) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police called Single.
But the defendants had appealed to higher courts, to no avail, and it was not until February 2019, three years ago, that Nagy was convicted.
Nagy and his accomplices were apprehended after investigators from the Joint Organized Crime Investigation Unit (UMÉCO) uncovered two plots to import tons of hashish and cocaine from Pakistan and Peru respectively. However, these were plots, no drugs having been seized.
In 1997, Nagy was arrested in connection with the importation of 500 kilograms of hashish from Houston, United States.
While awaiting trial, he was again apprehended for plotting to traffic nearly 3,000 kilograms of hashish from India, and was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2001.
One in five criminal friends
During his hearing, Louis Nagy told parole commissioners that he worked hard after leaving the penitentiary, following his 2001 conviction.
But he said he then experienced financial problems that prompted him to return to crime.
He also said that today his lifestyle has changed drastically, he has no money problem and his future income will be enough to cover his expenses.
He added that the fact that his loved ones need him and that he has certain health problems are sufficient reasons to divert him from the path of crime.
Nagy also claimed that 20% of his friends are involved in crime and the rest (80%) are upstanding citizens.
During his first federal sentence, Nagy was considered to be connected to a clan called Mayers, but authorities no longer consider him to be part of that group.
After experiencing a turbulent start to his incarceration, Nagy subsequently improved his behavior, so much so that the commissioners considered that they could grant him semi-release, but not yet full parole.
They still impose conditions on him. Until the end of his sentence, Nagy must have no contact with anyone he knows to be involved in the crime, and two individuals whose names are redacted in the decision.
He will also have to disclose all his financial transactions to his release agent.
Louis Nagy is considered by the police to be close to the boss Raynald Desjardins.
He had been present at the wedding of the latter’s daughter celebrated in October 2011, a month before the murder of aspiring godfather Salvatore Montagna and two months before the arrest of Raynald Desjardins for this crime.
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