Accurso’s Appeal Rejected by Quebec Court of Appeal

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Former construction magnate, Antonio Accurso, has received another blow in his bid to avoid appearing before and giving his testimony at the Charbonneau Commission. Accurso’s request to have his case heard at The Quebec Court of Appeal was rejected on Tuesday. Accurso had tried to fight a Superior Court ruling that made it compulsory for him to testify before the Charbonneau Commission and determined that his appearance at the inquiry would not violate his constitutional rights.

Mr. Accurso began his triumph to fight the Charbonneau Commission’s subpoena to testify since last summer, as he accused the provincial government to have set up the hearings in November 2011 just to particularly target him and alleged that testifying before the commission would violate his constitutional right to not incriminate himself. Accurso is charged in two criminal cases alleging he took part in conspiracies to commit fraud and corruption through contracts awarded to his companies by the cities of Laval and Mascouche.

The latest defeat has come from Quebec Court of Appeal Judge, François Doyon, who refused Accurso’s request to hear an appeal. In Doyon’s judgment penned on June 3, he said that most of Mr. Accurso’s reasons for seeking leave to appeal have already been dealt with by other courts. He said that Accurso’s appeal is destined to fail because of “the formal promise the commission has made to not question (Accurso) about the charges” that are pending against him.