NASSAU, Bahamas – Canadian authorities are seeking the extradition of a prominent Bahamas resident who is wanted for alleged fraud involving a hospital contract, authorities said Wednesday.
Canada’s anti-corruption police issued an arrest warrant early Wednesday for Dr. Arthur Porter, a physician who faces six fraud-related charges related to the construction of a Montreal hospital.
Porter is the former head watchdog of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the country’s spy agency. He was appointed to that post by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He is also the former chief of Canada’s McGill University Health Center, a job he left in 2011 amid allegations of mismanagement.
In the Bahamas, Porter is managing director of a private cancer treatment centre in the islands’ capital of Nassau. He has made the upscale, gated community of Old Fort Bay his permanent residence since moving to the archipelago off the eastern coast of Florida in 2011.
Anne Frederick Laurence, spokeswoman for Canada’s anti-corruption police, said extradition request procedures were “under way.”
