Allaudin Merali: Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne

Alberta Health Services Dept: Horne admits he didn't know about Allaudin Merali's previous troubles over similar spending when he was a health consultant in Ontario. Nor does he know if the board who hired Merali as chief financial officer for Alberta Health Services knew anything either, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Documents show that between 2005 and 2009 when Merali first worked in Alberta for a health authority that looked after Edmonton and region he filed expenses totalling $346,000. They included a bill to taxpayers for almost $1,750 to fix his Mercedes when his annual salary was $487,000 and eDMONTON - Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne has promised to get to the bottom of how a senior official was allowed to rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses for everything from fancy meals to car repairs. "I'm as much dumbfounded by this as anyone else," Horne said Thursday, the day after Merali's sudden resignation just weeks after he was hired by Alberta Health Services and three years after he left Ontario. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.