When a Dieppe business owner tried to cash a $25,000 US cheque given to her by Daniel Bard, the bank teller brought it back to her with a stamp, a slash and the words “account closed” on the back.
“I think I went straight to the police station,” Saly Eid testified Friday in Bard’s financial crimes trial.
It’s an amount Eid said Bard had owed her corporation for nearly two years after a loan deal gone wrong left her “chasing” him to get it back.
Bard is on trial in Moncton on 19 charges, including fraud, theft and money laundering. A trial last year ended in a mistrial in June when Bard’s lawyer withdrew for health reasons.
Eid is part-owner of Davis and Dye, a corporation that owned a beauty salon called Glamour Secrets in the Champlain Mall in Dieppe. Her business partner, Clinton Davis, has already testified about his own experience dealing with Bard.
Eid said that in 2017, she and Davis went to the 3+ economic development agency in Moncton and were paired with Bard.
When Bard saw the salon’s returns, Eid said, he suddenly took an interest in the business and seemed excited.
“We became something of value to his day at that point,” she said.
Bard was charged in 2022 with 19 financial crimes charges. (Katelin Belliveau/CBC News)
Bard proposed Eid and Davis pay him $25,000 US. They could then access a large credit enhancement loan to franchise a cosmetology store and beauty school.
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