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Federal Court stays deportation of China's most wanted man% P3 S8 C8 s# f* k1 W1 u/ K# P
Last Updated Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:05:08 EDT
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A Federal Court judge in Ottawa has stayed the deportation of Lai Changxing, China's most wanted man who is accused of bribing Chinese officials and smuggling $10 billion worth of goods.
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Lai Changxing will be able to stay in Canada while appealing his deportation, a federal judge ruled Thursday. (Chuck Stoody/Canadian Press) 6 Z6 N( N$ C8 e. B4 U5 C, a) H
Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson said Lai should be allowed to remain in Canada while he launches further appeals to the federal deportation order — a process likely to take many months or longer.( a& x/ }( Q- u- _6 G* ]
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His lawyer has said he will appeal the deportation to the United Nations if necessary.
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Lai, a billionaire who has been living in Vancouver and fighing the deportation order for years, claims he will be killed if he was deported back to China./ I' y f9 {' X3 D7 [, j6 ?& v" O
* m9 \' b5 Y2 o! [; iHe maintains he is just a fall guy in China's crackdown on corruption, but Canada's Immigration Department has ruled he is a fugitive and not a refugee. China said he is guilty of tax evasion and bribery.
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Chinese officials says Lai's company was a front for a $10 billion smuggling operation. His headquarters, the government alleges, was a pleasure palace where prostitutes entertained government officials. 7 [. B* M& O1 K, N1 V8 O
9 _, X2 p C& g3 GOne top customs officer, and even Lai's own brother, testified against him. But his lawyer says their statements were obtained under threat of torture.
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, o6 ?, j2 [8 l9 S5 _) U. ?Canada has received diplomatic assurances that Lai will be spared execution. But Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has said Lai ought to be executed. 9 j) n$ ]% c& b$ y( y% F
8 |0 q4 L B9 }8 M: l7 j- EFourteen people have already been sentenced to death in the smuggling scandal and Lai is convinced he will be killed in prison if Canada deports him.1 I; g4 K9 ?* b6 o
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