MONTREAL – Already a target of a police investigation into the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) that he once headed, Dr. Arthur Porter is now being pursued by McGill University, which according to media reports, says it has been cheated of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
McGill filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court on November 9, in the hope of recovering the balance of a loan made to Dr. Porter and the salary it paid to him by mistake, several months after that he had resigned.
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In 2008, a few years after he took control of the MUHC, Dr. Porter obtained a mortgage to buy a luxurious condo in downtown Montreal that was subsidized by McGill to the tune of half a million at 1% interest.
The property was sold for $450,000 in April, but according to the university, Dr. Porter is still owes $285,000 on the loan.
The university also claims that it has discovered it paid Dr. Porter $50,000 by mistake between May and September, after he resigned from the MUHC in December 2011.
Dr. Porter, who now runs several cancer centres in the Caribbean, apparently initially promised to repay the salary mistake.
In September, MUHC offices were raided by Quebec’s anti-corruption police squad.
Richard Fahey from the MUHC confirmed that a UPAC investigation was taking place and that it was related to contracts awarded in the Glen Yards site public-private partnership.
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