{"id":31134,"date":"2013-02-05T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=31134"},"modified":"2013-02-05T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:34:07","slug":"bahamas-cancer-chief-probed-in-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/bahamas-cancer-chief-probed-in-fraud-case","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Cancer Chief Probed In Fraud Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31141\" title=\"arthur-porter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/arthur-porter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/arthur-porter.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/arthur-porter-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Investigators are questioning if links exist between the Cancer Centre\u2019s managing director Arthur Porter and a company involved in an alleged fraud case at McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, according to one leading Canadian newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published last week in The Globe and Mail \u2013 one of Canada\u2019s largest circulating national newspaper \u2013 it claimed police have traced a company \u201cthat is at the centre of a massive alleged fraud\u201d at McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) to a building located in Nassau.<\/p>\n<p>The company in question, Sierra Asset Management has a registered address at a Bay Street building but no operations, The Globe and Mail stated.<\/p>\n<p>It was last month that Dr Porter hit back at \u201cspurious\u201d allegations surrounding his business ventures, and tenure and resignation from MUHC in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>According to Canadian media, the Quebec government recently released the results of an audit that found the MUHC\u2019s planned deficit of $12-million has ballooned to $115-million \u2013 a financial state so precarious that the hospital network has been assigned a special overseer to monitor its spending.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec\u2019s anti-corruption task force has also alleged that the hospital network was the victim of fraud in connection with its planned super-hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cancer Centre\u2019s managing director Arthur Porteris being investigated for possible links to a company involved in an alleged fraud case at McGill University Health Centre in Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,247,19,130],"class_list":["post-31134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-fraud","tag-health","tag-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}