Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been found guilty by a Canadian judge of sexual assault and forcible confinement, charges related to incidents that took place in Montreal in the 1990s.

The ruling came after Nygard, 84, pleaded no contest to evidence presented by prosecutors in a Montreal court on Monday, the first day of his trial in the case. He had been charged by prosecutors from the province of Quebec in 2022.

His trial was scheduled to last 10 days.

In 2024, in a separate case, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting four women in Toronto, Canada, from the late 1980s to 2005.

His appeal in that case was dismissed by an Ontario court earlier this year.

Nygard’s lawyer, Gerri Wiebe, told the BBC that his client “made a strategic decision not to contest the charges” based on his extradition status.

Last year, a judge stayed other historical sexual assault charges against Nygard in Winnipeg, Manitoba, fearing his right to a fair trial was violated when police failed to retain older records.

Nygard has been accused of using his wealth and influence to systematically assault and traffic women in the United States and Canada over several decades while he ran Nygard International, his global clothing design and manufacturing business.

In 2020, he resigned as president of the company shortly before it filed for bankruptcy after US authorities raided its headquarters in New York.

Once his legal cases in Canada are completed, he is expected to be extradited to the United States, where authorities say he engaged in a “decades-long pattern of criminal conduct” involving at least a dozen victims around the world.

He intends to request that Canada’s Justice Minister suspend any extradition to the United States given his age and health, Wiebe said Monday.

Nygard has denied all allegations against him.