Toronto Star

Doctor facing fraud charges dies at 59

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MONTREAL— Arthur Porter, a cancer specialist who was facing fraud charges related to a $1.3-billion hospital project in Montreal, has died, his biographer says.

Jeff Todd, who helped Porter write The Man Behind the Bow Tie, says Porter died early Wednesday at a hospital in Panama. He was 59.

Porter had been detained since May 2013 in a Panamanian prison while fighting extraditio­n to Canada.

Todd says he was informed of the death by Porter’s physician, Dr. Karol Sikora. Porter had been battling lung cancer since December 2012.

Porter’s wife, Pamela, was sentenced in December to 33 months in jail after she pleaded guilty to two counts of money laundering in connection with her husband’s case.

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