Integrity Commission rejects Dr. Wheatley's medical practice sale claim over deported buyer

The Integrity Commission has rejected an explanation Dr. Wheatley gave about the sale of his medical practice, after its own checks showed the person he named as the buyer could not have completed the transaction.

Dr. Wheatley told the commission that he sold his practice to an individual. He was unable, however, to produce records to back up that account.

When the Integrity Commission carried out independent research on the name he provided, it established that the person had been involuntarily removed from Jamaica—whether by deportation or extradition—roughly three years before the transaction was alleged to have taken place.

That timeline meant the explanation was not merely unsupported by documentation. The commission found it was impossible. The named individual could not have been in Jamaica to purchase the practice at the time Dr. Wheatley said the sale occurred.

On that basis, the Integrity Commission rejected Dr. Wheatley's account of the transaction.

The sale claim was one matter arising from a wider Integrity Commission report linked to Dr. Wheatley. No further details on other issues in that report were provided in the available material.