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Nurse Pleads Guilty to $55K Opioid Fraud
3 Feb
Summary
- Former nurse admitted to defrauding a clinic of over $55,000.
- She obtained thousands of vials of sufentanil and hydromorphone.
- Sentencing for the fraud and drug possession case is delayed.
Lovedip Sandhu, a 35-year-old former nurse, pleaded guilty in mid-January to charges of fraud over $5,000 and simple possession of narcotics. The offences occurred in 2021 while she was employed at Clinique K, a private plastic surgery clinic in Montreal. Sandhu admitted to defrauding the clinic of over $55,000 by forging the owner's signature to obtain opioid medications.
Between March and September 2021, Sandhu executed 75 fraudulent transactions, acquiring 3,778 vials of sufentanil and 2,138 vials of hydromorphone. She used the clinic's credit cards for payment. Sandhu, who was a registered nurse at the time, was later expelled from the Quebec Order of Nurses and Nursing Assistants in 2022. She cited developing an addiction due to health issues as the cause. Sentencing submissions are scheduled for June.
