Canada's highest court says one of the men behind the notorious 2012 maple syrup heist in Quebec will have to pay a $9.1-million dollar fine.
The Canadian PressMaple syrup cans are seen at a sugar shack in Oka, Quebec. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that one of the men behind a maple syrup heist that made international headlines a decade ago, should pay a fine equivalent to the value of the stolen goods.
In a unanimous decision Thursday, the Supreme Court of Canada said Richard Vallières must pay a fine equal to the value of the stolen syrup — not just equal to the profit he made from it.Vallières was found guilty in 2016 of fraud, trafficking and theft of 9,500 barrels of syrup between 2011 and 2012 from a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Que., the storage site for the province's maple syrup producers.
The ruling states that the fine must serve a "dual objective" of depriving Vallières of the proceeds of crime, and deterring him and others from carrying out a similar offence again. The Supreme Court did reduce Vallières's $10-million fine by about $830,000, the amount he owed the federation of syrup producers under a separate court order.
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