Former Interior Health chief medical officer Dr. Albert de Villiers was jailed for 5.5 years in June for molesting a child in Alberta between 2018 and 2020.
The former top doctor in the B.C. Interior collected a salary of $346,000 in the fiscal year 2022-2023, a full year after he had been charged with child sex crimes.
“It defies logic that hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds were spent to pay the salary of someone on trial for such horrible crimes,” said Prince George-Valemount MLA Shirley Bond, BC United Shadow Minister for Health. But he returned to work on Oct. 4, and was “reassigned to duties.” Interior Health at the time would not elaborate further on de Villiers new duties, only calling them “administrative.”
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