MONTREAL – Arthur Porter – a cancer specialist who was facing fraud charges related to the $1.3-billion MUHC super hospital project in Montreal – has died, his biographer said.
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Jeff Todd, who helped Porter write “The Man Behind the Bow Tie,” said Porter died early Wednesday at a hospital in Panama.
He was 59.
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Porter had been detained since May 2013 in a Panamanian prison while fighting extradition to Canada.
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Todd said he was informed of the death by Porter’s physician, Dr. Karol Sikora.
Porter had been battling lung cancer since December 2012.
Porter’s wife, Pamela Porter, was sentenced in December to 33 months in jail after she pleaded guilty to two counts of money laundering in connection with her husband’s case.
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