Self-made millionaire Cyril Lunn is still bound for extradition to the U.S., after losing his Nova Scotia Appeal Court bid for protection from his home and native land, the Chronicle Herald reported yesterday. The federal justice minister will surrender Lunn to the U.S. to face bankruptcy fraud charges. After leaving school in Nova Scotia at 15, Lunn eventually became wealthy in the construction industry in Boston. In August 2001, his company filed for chapter 7 in Massachusetts, attributing his financial downfall to embezzlement by a “cunning and cutthroat” common-law partner and her “surreptitious corporate mischief.” In October 2001, Lunn followed with a personal bankruptcy petition. In 2002, he returned to Canada. In autumn 2004, Lunn drove to the U.S. with a friend, and was charged with smuggling undeclared money into the U.S. after almost $70,000 cash and checkbooks from eight accounts (including one in Lunn’s name) were found in the car. In 2012, the U.S. sought his extradition from Canada to face the bankruptcy fraud charges he had evaded in 2005.
