Former employees being sued by the southwestern Ontario’s largest hospital network for their alleged involvement in a $60 million fraud scheme are denying the accusations in a statement of defence filed in court.
Last summer, London Health Science Centre’s (LHSC) filed two civil lawsuits against five of its former executives and their close contacts in what it calls a “decade-long fraud scheme.”
The hospital alleges its former director of facilities, Dipesh Patel, awarded multiple contracts over the years to his “personal contact,” Paresh Soni, who ran seven different companies and is also named in the lawsuit.
LHSC is seeking $50 million in damages, as well as all the profits that those named made, and all of the salaries that each made during the time the alleged fraud was being run.
It’s also suing three executives who it alleges knew about the fraud in April 2022 but did nothing…
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