A central Alberta man accused of bilking investors of $10.2 million in Canada and the U.S. in a pyramid scheme is to face a trial next year.

Waterloo Regional Police say there are at least 24 victims and the investigation goes all the way back to 2011.

The jurors at Jacques Corriveau's fraud trial have been told they must decide whether the ex-federal Liberal organizer knowingly used his influence to secure himself millions of dollars in kickbacks.