PANAMA CITY – Investigators with Quebec’s anti-corruption unit have received permission to view the body of Arthur Porter in Panama in order to confirm his death.
A spokesperson for the unit confirmed the investigators will be allowed to enter the morgue on Monday in order to collect fingerprints and visually identify Porter’s body.
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Porter, the former director of the McGill University Health Centre, had been facing fraud charges in Canada related to a $1.3-billion contract to build a megahospital in Montreal.
Porter’s biographer published a statement Wednesday to say Porter’s doctor confirmed his patient had succumbed to cancer in Panama, where he had been detained since May 2013 as he fought
extradition to Canada.
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The head of the anti-corruption unit and a Quebec Crown prosecutor have both said they would not close Porter’s file without official confirmation of his death.
The two officers from the anti-corruption unit landed in Panama on Friday.
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