Porter’s wife denied bail on conspiracy, money laundering charges

Of the 106 people arrested by Quebec’s anticorruption unit, she is the first to have been denied bail. Pamela Porter, pictured, the wife of Canada’s former spy watchdog Arthur Porter, had her request for freedom refused during a hearing Tuesday. The decision came the day before her 53rd birthday. She faces one charge of conspiracy as well as another related to laundering more than $22-million stemming from the construction of Montreal’s english-language superhospital. She is accused of helping her husband, the former head of Security Intelligence Review Committee and of the McGill university Health Centre, launder money. She was arrested in Panama on May 26. Meanwhile, Arthur Porter remains in a Panamanian prison and is fighting extradition to Canada.