Alberta Health Services is claiming its former CEO sent nearly a dozen emails containing confidential information to herself the day before her firing — in breach of her employment agreement and giving her employers “just cause” to terminate her.
On Wednesday, Sean Chilton, AHS senior vice-president of clinical operations, filed a sworn statement claiming Athana Mentzelopoulos improperly forwarded 11 emails to her personal Hotmail account one day before her Jan. 8 firing.
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Chilton said AHS learned on March 19 that Mentzelopoulos “had forwarded a number of emails from her AHS email account to her personal email account.” He filed an affidavit Wednesday seeking to amend AHS’ statement of defence to allege Mentzelopoulos’ use of the emails was a fireable offence.
“As the senior most officer of AHS and knowing the express terms of her employment agreement prohibited the use of AHS confidential information outside of her employment, she was in breach of her employment agreement,” the proposed addition reads.
“As a result of this decision, AHS states that it had acquired just cause to terminate the plaintiff’s employment.”
Dan Scott, Mentzelopoulos’ lawyer, said his client did nothing wrong.
“Ms. Mentzelopoulos sent emails to herself late in the afternoon of Jan. 7 while she was still the CEO and president of AHS,” he said in an email. “She then sent an email to the auditor general’s office at 7:50 a.m. on Jan. 8...
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