No White Christmas for Elbaz, request denied to have MUHC fraud charges stayed

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Yohann Elbaz is one of five men arrested five years ago in what one investigator called, “the biggest case of corruption fraud in Canadian history.”

Elbaz’s lawyer, Walid Hijazi, citing the Jordan Ruling*, requested in November to have the charges against his client in the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) fraud trial stayed.
Just before Christmas the request was rejected.
Elbaz will have to stand trial October 2018, facing charges of conspiracy, recycling the proceeds of crime and using false documents.
*The Jordan ruling, issued by the Supreme Court of Canada in July 2016, imposed new deadlines on the justice system to avoid unreasonable trial delays.
Source CBC.ca