Robert Miller: Montreal billionaire can’t defend from anonymous accusers in sex lawsuit, lawyer says [Video]

Quebec electronics billionaire Robert Miller wants to defend himself against the women who claim he paid them for sex when they were underage, but he can’t do that if he doesn’t know their names, his lawyer said Thursday.

Karim Renno told a Quebec Superior Court hearing that the class action application against his client cannot go forward because it allows his accusers to remain anonymous.

Miller, 81, founder of global electronics firm Future Electronics, “has the right to contradict this testimony,” Renno told Justice Catherine Piché. She is hearing arguments over three days to decide whether to authorize the lawsuit, which alleges Miller exchanged money and gifts for sex with minors in the 1990s and 2000s.

To this day, Miller doesn’t know who is accusing him, the lawyer said. “This is the frustration of my client … is that of a person who is waiting for the day to defend …