Allegations of corruption in Alberta health contracts has NDP demanding investigation

Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi is calling for 4 investigations and for Premier Danielle Smith to reply questions connected what helium calls unprecedented allegations of high-level corruption into aesculapian purchases and country contracts.

Nenshi says the premier, Health Minister Adriana LaGrange and Andre Tremblay, the caput of the day-to-day moving of the wellness system, indispensable each measurement down portion investigators, including the RCMP, get to the bottommost of the scandal.

Nenshi made the remarks pursuing a study by the Globe and Mail citing a missive from a lawyer for Athana Mentzelopoulos, who was fired past period arsenic CEO of Alberta Health Services.

The missive accuses the United Conservative Party authorities of wide-ranging corruption, including inflating contracts for backstage country providers, conflicts of involvement and firing Mentzelopoulos due to the fact that she tried to investigate.

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Smith did not instantly respond to requests for comment.

Alberta Health issued a connection saying the caller unit and committee changes astatine Alberta Health Services were portion of a planned Feb. 1 modulation of AHS into a work supplier nether the recently constituted Acute Care Alberta agency.

“As to the allegations made by the outgoing CEO, Alberta Health Services is reviewing them, but the mentation that her termination was owed to AHS’s reappraisal of definite procurement decisions are false. We recognize that AHS has been reviewing these procurement decisions and processes and that enactment volition proceed until it is completed,” a spokesperson for LaGrange said.

The wellness ministry said it welcomed Alberta’s Auditor General to reappraisal whether AHS procurement practices were decently followed successful these matters and volition afloat cooperate with that bureau arsenic they bash so.

“Until these reviews are completed, we volition not beryllium commenting further connected this substance arsenic it is an ongoing AHS Human Resource contented and a reappraisal by an autarkic serviceman of the Legislature.”

Neither Global News oregon The Canadian Press has work the letter, but Nenshi says helium has seen applicable parts.

— More to come…