Judge finds Gary Aboud threatened consultant over failed $10m investment

Busi­ness­man and en­vi­ron­men­tal­ist Gary Aboud has been found to have forced a fi­nan­cial con­sul­tant to ac­cept li­a­bil­i­ty for a failed $10 mil­lion off­shore in­vest­ment through threats and in­tim­i­da­tion.

High Court Judge Devin­dra Ram­per­sad made the se­ri­ous find­ing against the Mode Alive own­er on Mon­day as he dis­missed a case pur­sued by Aboud, his wife and sis­ter-in-law seek­ing to re­coup loss­es on their in­vest­ments.

In­stead, Jus­tice Ram­per­sad up­held a coun­ter­claim from Lawrence Mol­len­thiel and his com­pa­ny, In­vest­ment De­signs Lim­it­ed, al­leg­ing that Aboud and an as­so­ciate co­erced him in­to sign­ing a doc­u­ment ac­cept­ing li­a­bil­i­ty for the loss dur­ing an in­tense four-hour meet­ing at his of­fice in 2017.