A wealthy casino executive who allegedly flew into a remote Canadian territory with his wife and posed as a local motel worker to get the Covid-19 vaccine is a director of a company in Bermuda.

Rodney Baker and his wife Ekaterina made global headlines after they reportedly flew on a private plane into Beaver Creek, a tiny hamlet in the Yukon close to the Alaskan border, on January 21 and got in line for a dose of the Moderna vaccine.

A mobile team of medics was there administering the shots to the local population of about 100 people, many of them elderly.

The couple, from Vancouver, British Columbia, were apprehended by officials after leaving Beaver Creek and landing in Whitehorse, the territory’s capital.

They were given $2,300 in fines for breaking the Yukon’s pandemic-related rules.

But according to a report in the Globe and Mail the tickets have since been stayed and the Bakers have been served with a notice to appear in a Whitehorse court in May.

They are each charged with one count of failing to self-isolate for 14 days and one count of failing to act in a manner consistent with their declarations upon arriving in the Yukon. If convicted, they could spend six months in jail.

The Globe and Mail interviewed Gordon Flatt, a lifelong friend of Mr Baker who lives in Bermuda and is a director of a company here with him and other members of the Baker family.

The Registrar of Companies lists Rodney Neil Baker, of the Ridgeline Corporation in Toronto, as a director of Baker Associates Ltd, along with four relatives and Mr Flatt, of Southampton.

The exempted company was incorporated in Bermuda in September 1991 and is still active.

Mr Flatt told the Globe: “It was the stupidest, utterly stupidest thing, that anybody could ever do especially when they’re the CEO of a public Canadian listed company and regulated and worth $1.5-billion. It makes no sense.”

He said his family had done business with Mr Baker and his family for 25 years.

Mr Baker stepped down as chief executive officer of the Great Canadian Gaming Corporation three days after the fines were issued.

The Globe and Mail reported that he earned a $900,000 salary the previous fiscal year and recently made nearly $46 million on stock options. His wife is an actor.