Mulroney Ordered To Pay Businessman $470,000

OTTAWA (CP) - Brian Mulroney has been ordered by a court to pay $470,000 to former business associate Karlheinz Schreiber.

The order comes in a default judgment by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Schreiber sued the former prime minister to recoup $300,000 in cash the businessman says he handed to Mulroney over three meetings in hotel rooms in New York and Montreal in 1993 and 1994. Mulroney had already left politics at the time.

Brian Mulroney has been ordered by a court
to pay $470,000 to former
business associate Karlheinz Schreiber.
(CPimages)

Mulroney's lawyer Kenneth Prehogan appeared shocked by the ruling, saying it would be set aside because he has argued all along that the Ontario court had no jurisdiction to consider the lawsuit.

In his statement of claim, Schreiber said the cash was to enlist Mulroney's help in establishing an arms factory in Quebec and a pasta-machine business.

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