{"id":929864,"date":"2026-10-12T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929864\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T05:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:30:16","slug":"lasik-md-severs-ties-with-montreal-eye-surgeon-following-allegations-about-involvement-in-prostitution-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929864\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasik MD severs ties with Montreal eye surgeon following allegations about involvement in prostitution industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This story includes details that some readers might find disturbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lasik MD has announced that it has permanently ended its relationship with one of its surgeons, Montrealer Mounir Bashour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelle\/2290190\/medecin-montreal-escorte-bashour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The name of the longtime ophthalmologist was mentioned<\/a> amid a host of troubling revelations on the Oct. 8 episode of the Radio-Canada investigative show <a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/tele\/enquete\/site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Enqu\u00eate<\/a> regarding his longtime involvement with the high-end prostitution industry, as a recruiter and as a consumer of sexual services with disturbing proclivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story includes details that some readers might find disturbing. Lasik MD has announced that it has permanently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-929864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}