“Jail sentences do not deter future white-collar crimes. What discourages future white-collar criminals is the fear of getting caught, not the length of sentence,” according to an accounting professor.
Three more individuals linked with the bankrupt Montreal financial group Mount Real Corp. were recently condemned…
“The petitioners are the defendants in the longest running judicial saga in Quebec legal history,” so begins Justice Alan Hilton in a ruling.
Nearly 15 months after the Quebec Court of Appeal griped about the legal war of attrition that has lasted more than a decade in the case against a former accounting giant and its partners over the infamous collapse of Montreal real-estate firm Castor Holdings Inc., the highest court of the province recently dismissed yet another appeal.