SYDNEY — A new preliminary hearing date has been set for a Cape Breton family charged in connection with an alleged $3.6-million tax fraud.
Charged are Lydia Saker, 74, of Shore Road, Sydney Mines and her daughters, Georgette Young, 47, of Stanley Street, Sydney, Angela MacDonald, 45, of Terra Nova Drive, Kentville, and Nadia Saker, 43, of Leitches Creek.
The four individuals plus 10 companies they operated are charged with more than 30 counts of fraud that are alleged to have occurred between January 2011 and July 2015.
A preliminary hearing was scheduled for this week but was adjourned in accordance with recently implemented health restrictions aimed are reducing the spread of COVID-19.
A preliminary hearing in the case is now scheduled for March 1 and 3, 2021.