The Alberta health authority affirms that its former executive violated its work agreement by retaining confidential emails with information relating to allegations in a high -level judicial case.
A new affidavit deposited Wednesday by Alberta health services Said that the agency seeks to modify its declaration of defense in the light of emails, which the agency says it only read last week.
Old head Ahs Athana Mentzellopoulos Continues the government of Alberta and AHS for an unjustified dismissal, alleging that it was illegally dismissed in January to prevent it from investigating dear transactions and high -level political interference in health supply contracts of several million dollars.
She was dismissed for a year in a four -year contract and sought $ 1.7 million in wages and lost damage. The allegations on all sides have not yet been tested in court.
The new affidavit, filed Wednesday by the main vice-president of AHS clinical operations, Sean Chilton, said that the agency discovered last week that Mentzellopoulos had sent nearly a dozen job accounts to a personal email address the day before the dismissal.
These emails, according to Chilton, “contain confidential information, privileged information and commercial files” that Mentzellopoulos was not authorized to keep.
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As such, the agency claims that the former executive violated its work agreement and the conservation of emails was a fixed offense, which it wants its declaration of defense included.
Wednesday’s depot contains almost completely expounded copies of the emails in question. Affidavit reveals only object lines and sender or recipients, who are largely limited to government bureaucrats and AHS officials.
The object lines indicate information on private surgical installations and requests for freedom of information related to a private medical supplier which is at the heart of the allegations of politics interference of mentzelopoulos and conflicts of interest.
As part of the Wednesday judicial file, Alberta Health Services also requests an injunction to prevent Mentzelopoulos from using confidential emails as proof in court and to share them publicly or with the media, that the agency now accused him of doing.
Affidavit claims that the recent reports carried out by The globe and the mail Works the information contained in emails.
“Ahs has no control over the use and distribution of (mentzellopoulos) of this confidential information and commercial files, and will undergo irreparable damage if (it) had to use (e-mails) for its personal benefit rather than for the benefit of AHS,” said the Affidavit of Chilton.
In an email, the lawyer for Mentzellopoulos, Dan Scott, denied that he or Mentzellopoulos have committed objection to confidential emails.
He also denied having shared the emails with the Globe and mail.
A version of a modified Defense Ahs declaration now wants to file is also included in the Affidavit on Wednesday.
The project is largely unchanged, with the exception of a new paragraph which says that by keeping and disclosing the emails, Mentzellopoulos committed a drawn offense, giving Ahs just to dismiss it “after” it was dismissed.
In her original reconvention request, as well as the Minister of Health, Adriana Lagrange, in her own declaration of defense, said that Mentzelopoulos had been dismissed for poor performance at work, not for her investigation into alleged irregular contracts.
Mentzellopoulos challenged this defense, saying that she had been congratulated by Lagrange for her work.
Since the case became public last month, the RCMP launched an investigation, as was the Auditor General of Alberta, Doug Wylie.
The province launched its own third investigation, conducted by a former judge.
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