VANCOUVER — A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled a widower is liable for repaying nearly a quarter million dollars his wife stole from the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority before she died.
Court documents show Wanda Moscipan worked as an administer for both the authority and the University of B.C. when she siphoned more than $574,000 from the authority between 2003 and 2011.
Justice Leonard Marchand ruled this week that her husband, Miroslaw Moscipan, must have known she was receiving funds through fraudulent means.
Moscipan told the court his wife was secretive with the family finances but he thought she made over $100,000 per year.
But Marchand's decision says the family led a "richer lifestyle than a typical family of four or five" spending about $20,000 a year on transportation alone.
Wanda Moscipan died of cancer after being diagnosed in 2010 and the decision says the health authority is also entitled more than a half-million dollars from her estate in repayment for the money stolen.
