CBC News has learned two of the people charged by the OPP on Monday in connection with the deaths of three young men in Muskoka last summer didn't work for the company involved when the accident happened.
The three men, Cory Mintz, 20, Tyler Mulcahy, 20, and Kourosh Totonchian, 19, died after the car they were riding in burst through a guardrail and struck a tree before ending up on its side in the Joseph River, near Port Carling.
A fourth member of the party, Nastasia Elzinga, 19, survived the July 3, 2008, crash. She is also from Toronto,
The OPP said at the time its investigators had determined that alcohol and speed were "definite factors" in the crash. An autopsy confirmed that all three drowned.
It was also revealed that the group had consumed 31 alcoholic drinks over a three-hour period at the Lake Joseph Club before the accident.
The three victims had been visiting Mintz's mother's cottage and decided to have a late lunch at the Water's Edge restaurant in the club.
On Monday, the OPP said it was charging 16 people with a total of 34 offences under the Liquor Licence Act. Three employees and 13 executives with Clublink, the corporation that owns the exclusive Lake Joseph Club, are facing charges.
The three employees were working the day of the accident. One was the restaurant manager, the other two were bar staff.
But CBC News reports that records show that two of the executives charged are former Clublink vice-presidents and had already left the corporation before the incident happened.