Alleged fraud worth $60M uncovered at London Health Sciences Centre

Kate Dubinski · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 09, 2025 3:50 PM EDT | Last Updated: July 10

An audit has uncovered a decade-long fraud astatine the region's largest infirmary web with the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) filing 2 abstracted lawsuits implicating five former executives, a contractor and companies hired to bash work.

The lawsuits full much than $60 cardinal and allege that immoderate executives knew astir the strategy and did thing to halt it. One of the lawsuits besides links much than 60 "suspicious properties" worthy astir $20M to 3 radical progressive successful the alleged scheme, purchased aft multi-million dollar contracts were awarded by the hospital. 

London constabulary are present investigating, said David Musyj, the supervisor brought successful to oversee an overhaul of the struggling hospital, which is projected to person a $150M deficit. 

"The Fraudulent Scheme was a calculated, multi-year run of deceit and theft, deliberately engineered to misappropriate nationalist funds for idiosyncratic and unlawful gain," the suit that was filed Wednesday alleges. 

Court documents show LHSC's erstwhile vice president liable for facilities, Dipesh Patel, who was terminated successful August 2024, awarded multiple contracts implicit the years to his "personal contact" Paresh Soni, who ran 7 antithetic companies. Former Director of Facilities Derek Lall, who reported straight to Patel, is besides named successful the lawsuit.

It's alleged the men were involved successful what's described arsenic actions that "flouted, circumvented, ignored and/or frustrated" the rules astir procurement. 

The infirmary mislaid $50 million, officials allege, erstwhile contracts were awarded contempt conflicts of interest, inappropriate bids and inflated invoices for enactment that was ne'er done. 

Executives complicit, suit alleges

Additionally, 3 executives are being sued due to the fact that they allegedly knew astir the fraud successful April 2022 and did thing astir it, according to a 2nd suit filed for $10 million.

The 2nd suit names Abhi Mukherjee, the hospital's main fiscal serviceman from 2022 to 2024, Jackie Schleifer Taylor, who was the CEO from 2021 to 2024, and Brad Campbell, the hospital's firm infirmary administrative enforcement from 2022 to 2024. 

Before being hired by the hospital, Campbell besides worked for six years arsenic a advisor for a institution called Corpus Sanchez International Consultancy Inc., and was performing assorted enforcement roles for the hospital. Corpus Sanchez is besides named successful the lawsuit. 

Among the allegations successful the 2 lawsuits: 

• Patel abused his presumption of spot arsenic a elder enforcement and colluded with others to falsify documents, marque payments for nary morganatic reasons, inflated invoices, and charged for enactment that was not performed, the documents allege. 
• Four radical intimately connected to Patel and 9 companies operated by those radical participated successful the alleged fraud billed the infirmary for model replacements, wide contractor services and for diverting funds "for their ain idiosyncratic benefit." 
• Money made from the fraud was utilized to bargain much than 95 properties successful London, including single-family homes, flat buildings and townhouses.
• In April 2022, Schleifer Taylor was told astir imaginable fraud successful the facilities procurement and operation contracting departments, and told Campbell astir it, but they didn't archer the committee of directors, motorboat an investigation, oregon archer interior oregon outer auditors. 
• Mukherjee was told astir the imaginable fraud successful December 2022 but and besides didn't motorboat an investigation. 
• The executives allowed radical implicated successful the fraud to pb a reappraisal into rising operation costs, which led to a 2023 study that didn't code oregon adjacent admit the beingness of the allegations. 

"As we vigorously prosecute these civilian cases and proceed our forensic audit, we person besides provided these findings to London Police Service arsenic they proceed their investigation. At this time, immoderate different unit progressive successful this misconduct are nary longer employed astatine LHSC," Musyj wrote successful an email to infirmary unit Wednesday. 

CBC News requested an interrogation with Musyj Wednesday but helium was not disposable for interviews. The state told CBC News it volition not remark portion the substance is earlier the courts. 

"I admit this is simply a profoundly disappointing moment. This is not who we are astatine LHSC and it's surely not a reflection of our team," Musyj wrote. 

Musyj besides shared that a caller whistleblower argumentation is successful place, and reminded employees that they tin supply confidential information. 

Mukherjee and Campbell person some antecedently filed wrongful termination lawsuits against the London Health Sciences Centre. 

Read details of the suit here: