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( I8 I6 F, d# P8 g+ cFederal Court stays deportation of China's most wanted man
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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 $10 billion worth of goods.
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Lai Changxing will be able to stay in Canada while appealing his deportation, a federal judge ruled Thursday. (Chuck Stoody/Canadian Press) - V- @/ Q& r8 p( r/ L
Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson said Lai should be allowed to remain in Canada while he launches further appeals to the federal deportation order — a process likely to take many months or longer.
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His lawyer has said he will appeal the deportation to the United Nations if necessary.* m0 p# T G1 z8 f$ O: j
+ N8 q% M) t8 i g0 f3 aLai, 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.
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- C6 J3 N' J" V' \( R" K% }He 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 $10 billion smuggling operation. His headquarters, the government alleges, was a pleasure palace where prostitutes entertained government officials.
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. V m9 B$ A! Y7 L3 S9 @ FOne 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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Canada has received diplomatic assurances that Lai will be spared execution. But Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has said Lai ought to be executed. R( l2 _& O. C, `; C2 Y5 ?
! O( O- }7 U+ `) U, Z0 H* Z8 j4 uFourteen 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.
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