A huge condo project in Beaconsfield is in trouble. Construction on West Hill, which is 50% owned by Tony Akrso’s son-in-law’s company, has been stalled for more than a year. Partners in the project no longer speak to each other, have lost building permits and are being sued for millions by their lenders, including a company owned by a close mafia family.
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110434 Canada Inc. It is seeking $1.6 million from promoters of the project, which would have up to 150 apartments in a four-story building at the corner of Elm Street and Alton Drive.
The numbered company is owned by the children of 59-year-old Tony Suzuki alias Antonio Pietrantonio. The gang was sentenced to three years in prison in the early 1990s after Operation Jockey seized 740 kilograms of cocaine in Nova Scotia.
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Antonio Pietrantonio, Tony Suzuki, Hell’s Angel at Martin Robert’s Wedding 1R December 2018 in downtown Montreal. He owes his nickname to the Ville-Marie Suzuki dealership he operated with his family until 2007.
In the early 2000s, the anti-Mafia operation Collisi detailed his numerous connections with Montreal Mafia godfather Vito Rizzuto until his death in 2013. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police believed Pietrantonio to be the leader of one of the targeted cells. Its researchers. However, the police concentrated their efforts on other suspects and did not arrest him.
His son Gabriel 110434 Canada Inc. is the chairman of, which is suing the promoter of West Hill, 50% owned by Carol Fortin, husband of Lisa Rae, daughter of Tony Akrso.
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Lisa Ray is the daughter of Carol Fortin and Tony Akrso
According to our police sources, Gabriel Pietrantonio’s wedding at Club Atwater on August 27 was attended by members and relatives of organized crime, including Hell’s Angel Martin Robert and Montreal underworld figure Francesco del Palso.
Tony Suzuki’s other two children, Adriano and Marina Pietrantonio, are partners with Gabriele in the private loan company.
Expired building permit
The West Hill site had already been idled for nearly a year when Pietrantonio’s company fell through last July.
Today, as building permits expire, promoters must pay tens of thousands of dollars to obtain new ones to restart operations. He must sign a new contract with the Garantie de Construction Résidence (GCR).
“The company no longer has the right to build, so the project can no longer continue,” said François-William Simard, vice president of communications at the organization that protects buyers’ deposits. One of them has sent the first claim seeking compensation to get back his deposit.
The main lender for the project is HMT Holding Inc. Toronto’s promoter of West Hill has not repaid more than $2.3 million in first-tier financing since last May.
Subcontractors who worked on the project are also demanding more than half a million from the company that owns the project.
Inaccessible allies
Another Carol Ford’s company has already built the first building on the West Hill site with 24 apartments. The promoter was later joined by promoter duo Frank Scardozzi and Stephanie Gould. Together they formed a new company to create a similar second phase. But when problems pile up, communication between partners breaks down.
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Stephanie Gould and Frank Scardozzi are partners at Carol Ford in West Hill.
So Carol Ford filed a motion to force her co-owners to hand over the project to her or, if they refused, to complete it without her. “We’ve made several offers and the other one, he hasn’t responded to, so we’re going to ask a judge to decide,” the businessman said in an interview. Pres.
According to him, Frank Scardozzi is now responsible for finding financing from private lenders trying to restore their marbles.
He first found a loan of 5.9 million HMT. “There was still a shortage of money, explains Carol Ford. She said, “I have one Friends Who does the funding.” »
The boyfriendGabriel Pietrantonio is Tony Suzuki’s son.
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Gabriel Pietrantonio, son of Antonio Pietrantonio and president of 110434 Canada Inc., sued West Hill Advertiser for $1.6 million
Contacted by Pres Reached by phone and through his attorney, Ciro Cucciniello, Frank Scardozzi did not return calls.
A surprise visit
In the interview PresCarol Fortin’s attorney, Audrey Lanctot, tells how Gabriel Pietrantonio and his father met with her unannounced last July after she filed suit against the West Hill partners.
“They rushed to my office,” she said. Then, they asked to return the money.
They called me and they were in the conference room. I went to see. I spoke to Gabriel, but his father was there.
Audrey Lanctot, attorney for Carol Fortin
Carol Fortin assures that she does not know who the father of her debtor, Gabriel Pietrantonio, is. “My lawyer tells me that Gabriel has his own financial institution,” says the businessman, who is not related to his father.
Contacted by PresKristen Petitclerc, an attorney for Pietrantonio’s firm, did not return a call.
Carroll Ford promises the legal dispute is “resolved.” “At the end of the line, I pay them,” he said.
Protected buyers
Joined by PresA customer who booked an apartment in September 2020 says he contacted GCR to get his $41,000 deposit back.
Zach Herskovitz is happy not to hand over more funds to an advertiser.
“He asked us for an additional $80,000 in February 2021 [logement] He says. However, the guarantee scheme offers a ceiling of $50,000 as an insurable deposit.
“We said yes, but in the end, he never came back to see us,” Zach Herskovitz said.
GCR invites all buyers left to contact the company.
“Entrepreneurs seem to want to pay people back,” says François-William Simard. However, the deposit is protected under the scheme as he is enrolled in the guarantee scheme while receiving these amounts.
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