Fashion mogul Peter Nygard plans to file a criminal complaint against the CBC, alleging the state broadcaster defamed him in a documentary that aired last spring.
Last year, the network broadcast an unflattering profile of the fashion designer, who has a residence in the Bahamas.
Arrest warrants have been issued for the two “witnesses” who were featured in the televised assault on Nygard’s reputation. Both Allan and Michelle May workled briefly for Nygard. The pair are wanted for refusing to pay a $189,000 fine stemming from a civil fraud charge leveled against them a year before the Nygard documentary aired.
Nygard claims the television documentary was bogus, fabricated on orders from Louis Bacon, the billionare hedge fund manager who is embroiled in a property dispute with his neighbor, Nygard, in the cushy Lyford Cay community near Nassau, Bahamas.
The Calgary Sun quotes a London-based spokesman for Nygard as saying, “We are appalled by the calculated actions of the CBC.
“We have and will continue to vigorously defend our brand.”
