Chinh Nguyen, an orthopaedic spinal surgeon formerly employed by Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, has been jailed for five years for his involvement in money laundering from profits made from a network of cannabis farms.  He has also has his licence to practise suspended by the General Medical Council.

Judge Morrison, when jailing Mr Nguyen, said “Between April 2003 and your arrest in 2006 you paid into your bank accounts £2,350,000.  Your wife paid in £1,183,000……The vast majority of the monies were from the sale of cannabis from farms in London…..The damage cannabis does is well known, and all the worse when, as in this case, it is high grade skunk.”   Mrs Nguyen was given a suspended sentence. 

It has been reported that in 2007 his work was investigated when three patients nearly died after he carried out spinal surgery.  Mr Nguyen was allowed to return to work.  In December 2008, Mrs Satwant Vohra, one of his private patients at Garden Hospital in Hendon, North London, died following surgery to relieve a trapped nerve.  Her aorta was pierced during the operation and she died from internal bleeding.  An inquest into this death is pending.

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