Frank Stronach waves to supporters during an election campaign event in Vienna, Austria, in 2013. On Friday, Stronach, 93, was found guilty of sexual assault in Toronto, Canada. File Photo by Robert Jaeger/EPA
June 19 (UPI) -- Canadian auto parts mogul Frank Stronach, 93, was found guilty Friday of sexual assault and indecent assault.
Stronach, one of Canada's richest men, was found not guilty of three other charges of sexual assault involving two other women. In those three cases, Justice Anne Molloy said she couldn't determine if the incidents were consensual.
Born in Austria and the founder of Magna International, Stronach pleaded not guilty to 12 charges from seven women. The allegations were from incidents that allegedly happened from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Most of the women were people he met through Magna or other companies that he controlled. But the woman in the indecent assault charge was an acquaintance of Stronach's who said she went to his apartment after a dinner in 1977 when she was 25. She said Stronach lifted her skirt and did what Molloy called, "quite simply, gross and disgusting conduct."
