Discredited whistleblower Ashton Foley has been arrested in Victoria but will not be extradited to Western Australia.
Despite initial reports that she would be extradited west, WA Police say this is not true and her arrest is in regard to matters outside of WA.
Victorian police have confirmed that a 40-year-old Hawthorn woman was arrested at a residential address in Lindamay Court, Lake Bunga about 10am on Tuesday.
Police said she was arrested on a warrant for breaching a Community Based Order and has been remanded to appear at Bairnsdale Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
The woman is understood to be Ms Foley, who made headlines last year by claiming doctors at Peel Health Campus, south of Perth, were being paid "incentive" payments to admit patients through the emergency department.
The former chief executive of the hospital testified to a parliamentary committee and then left WA with her family to become chief executive at Orbost Regional Health in Victoria.
But she quit that job about a fortnight ago after media reports revealed she had been jailed in the US in 2008 on fraud charges.
WA police have also investigated claims she falsified information on her application for the Peel Health Campus job and she has also had allegations of bigamy, levelled at her, both of which Ms Foley denies.
Police spokesman Sam Dinnison said WA Police had not charged Ms Foley with anything.
"We do want to speak to her but there are no active arrest warrants or extradition warrants."
He said if she was to appear in court on Wednesday, this could change but he was not aware of any plans to seek her extradition at this stage.
-with AAP and Aleisha Orr