![]() And to top it off, the court found in 2009 that Cinar had indeed stolen Claude Robinson's ''Robinson Sucroe'' cartoon idea, as he had originally pitched it to the studio unsuccessfully in 1986. Cinar lost millions as a result of the scandal, and in 2001, the studio collapsed and Weinberg and Charest were fired from the studio's board of directors. ![]() ![]() Furthermore, Weinberg, Charest, and several other top executives had transferred over $120 million of the Cinar's funding to offshore bank accounts without the knowledge or approval of the rest of the studio. ![]() It turned out that Cinar had been cheating around Canadian Content laws to illegitimately acquire federal grants and tax credits from the Canadian and Quebec governments by paying American writers to produce the scripts for their TV shows (Canadian Content laws state a Canadian TV show must use Canadian screenwriters to receive funding). Charest and Weinberg insisted this was not the case, but court investigations into the ''Robinson Sucroe'' case uncovered something much bigger. In 1995, a Montreal animator named Claude Robinson had sued the studio for stealing the concept for their ''WesternAnimation/RobinsonSucroe'' series from him (]). However, in 2000, Cinar's golden age came to an abrupt end when the now-infamous Cinar Scandal came to light.
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