Evidence hearings begin for former Moncton executive accused of fraud

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A former Moncton economic development agency executive returned to court this week for hearings about evidence that may be used in his upcoming trial. 

Daniel Bard, 60, set to stand trial in April on 19 charges of fraud

Shane Magee · CBC News

· Posted: Feb 04, 2025 2:14 PM EST | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

A man in a blue winter coat with glasses and light grey hair smirking while walking out of a building.

Daniel Bard shown leaving the Moncton courthouse on Monday. (Rachel Gauvin/Radio-Canada)

A former Moncton economic development agency executive returned to court this week for hearings about evidence that may be used in his upcoming trial. 

Daniel Bard, 60, is scheduled to stand trial over six weeks starting April 22. He faces 19 charges that include fraud, theft and money laundering.

Some of the allegations date to when Bard was vice-president of investment attraction for 3+ Corporation between 2016 and 2018. It was a municipally funded business development agency for the Moncton region.

In 2019, CBC reported Bard was accused by several business owners and individuals of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in administrative and brokerage fees while working for the agency, but failing to deliver on promises, and then vanishing.

He was arrested in northwest New Brunswick in 2022 as part of an investigation into what RCMP described as “financial irregularities amounting to more than a million dollars.”

On Monday,

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