His approach escaped notice for some time. We now have better tools and are exploring ways to beef up that audit regime. That unnamed pharmacist alerted Wierenga's office, which in turn alerted RCMP commercial crime investigators. He was a wake-up call for the types of tools we use for audits. There are formulas, but he got around them.
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We do a profile of extraordinary cases so we can look for similar red flags elsewhere. Kim Turner said commercial crime cops spent a year probing Green's bogus claims, adding the case was a first for Alberta Mounties. Meanwhile, the governing body for Alberta's 2,800 pharmacists has started its own probe of Green. Alberta Pharmaceutical Association registrar Greg Eberhard said court transcripts will be studied to see if a professional misconduct hearing is warranted. Such a hearing could result in Green being barred from ever practising as a pharmacist again.