Montreal billionaire Robert Miller is facing additional charges of sexual misconduct involving a new alleged victim who was under the age of 14, Radio-Canada has learned.
Quebec’s director of criminal and penal prosecutions, known by its French acronym DPCP, has charged the businessman with sexual contact with a person under the age of 16 and sexual exploitation of a minor.
The woman in question was allegedly under the age of 14 at the time of her first encounters with the billionaire.
These charges are in addition to the 21 counts already brought against Miller when he was initially arrested on May 30, and bring the number of alleged victims to 11.
It was a report from Radio-Canada’s Enquête, broadcast in February 2023, that first revealed the allegations of numerous women who said that Miller had paid them for sex when they were minors.
The report led to Miller’s resignation from his company Future Electronics. A police investigation was also relaunched, resurrecting elements of an initial effort in 2009, which did not result in any criminal charges at the time.
Miller is also the subject of several civil lawsuits, including a class action that has not yet been authorized but has about 50 participants, and three individual complaints that total nearly $30 million in requested damages.
Although these proceedings have been going on for months, Miller, who has advanced Parkinson’s disease, has not yet appeared in court due to his poor health. In the case of the class action, Miller’s lawyers have asked that he be questioned in writing.
Miller has repeatedly denied the accusations against him.