What is the delay for a complex fraud case?

R v. Majeed, 2017 ONSC 3554, [2017] O.J. No. 3011, was a complex fraud case with a total delay of 54.5 months. After allowing for defence delay and exceptional discrete events, the period was reduced to 39 months, 19 days. The case involved “an elaborate scheme amongst a group of co-conspirators to commit multiple frauds, each playing a different role”: para. 4. The allegations spanned two years. There were multiple accused, 90 police interviews, 60 judicial authorizations, and tens of thousands of pages of disclosure. The case involved a fraud that “cannot be proven just by following a paper trail”, requiring the testimony of 90 witnesses: para. 38.