Dr. Jonathan Burns, with his Pixalere device, used by four health authorities in B.C. and earning Burns's company hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.Dr. Jonathan Burns, with his Pixalere device, used by four health authorities in B.C. and earning Burns's company hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. (Abbotsford News)

A company owned by the man at the centre of an RCMP fraud and breach-of-trust investigation is collecting $320,000 a year from the B.C. health system, CBC News has learned.

Dr. Jonathan Burns, head of Pixalere Health Care, invented a medical device called Pixalere, used to scan injuries and send data to doctors electronically for diagnosis.

Pixalere is used by four health authorities in B.C. — Northern Health, Fraser Health, Vancouver Coastal Health and Interior Health. Each authority pays Burns's company $80,000 annually for rights to use the device.

The RCMP alleges that Burns bribed two provincial health-care bureaucrats in the process of getting the Pixalere adopted for use.

The allegations are contained in information the RCMP presented to a judge to obtain a search warrant. None of the allegations have been proved in court and no charges have been laid.

Late Thursday, B.C.'s health minister said all individuals currently under investigation are no longer receiving government money.

"My understanding is that the individuals that were directly involved are no longer working with government," Kevin Falcon told reporters in Victoria.

B.C. NDP questions contract

The B.C. NDP health critic said Burns's company should not still be collecting taxpayer dollars.

"I think that, especially in the case of Fraser Health, it just is beyond me that they can know what they know and not have terminated that contract," MLA Adrian Dix told CBC News on Friday.

Ronald Danderfer, seen when he was head of B.C.'s Vital Statistics Agency, is named in an RCMP search warrant. Ronald Danderfer, seen when he was head of B.C.'s Vital Statistics Agency, is named in an RCMP search warrant. (CBC)

Former Fraser Health technology manager James Roy Taylor and former assistant deputy health minister Ron Danderfer were alleged by the RCMP to be recipients of favours from Burns.

Neither Taylor nor Burns now work for the provincial government.

In the 99-page search warrant obtained by CBC News, it's alleged Burns became an adviser to Danderfer in 2006 and that Burns paid for a trip by Danderfer to Paris, provided a free stay at a condo in Kelowna and provided a job to Danderfer's wife in exchange for Danderfer approving government cheques to Burns.

The RCMP also allege former Fraser Health Authority manager James Roy Taylor allowed Burns to fraudulently submit more than $500,000 in invoices while the Pixalere was being tested, in return for a $70,000-a-year job for Taylor's wife and free use of the Kelowna condo.

Taylor was hired by the Fraser Health Authority in the same month he had been sentenced to two years' night-time house arrest for fraudulently pocketing more than $40,000 while president of the White Rock Sea Festival.