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( H" q3 V8 {9 X1 j0 }Federal Court stays deportation of China's most wanted man& m2 N: M2 D# e- D% S* W$ A/ S
Last Updated Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:05:08 EDT & R1 u( Y$ T: g% F) a9 `; a) K( I" D
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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 $10 billion worth of goods.
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Lai Changxing will be able to stay in Canada while appealing his deportation, a federal judge ruled Thursday. (Chuck Stoody/Canadian Press)
6 }! ?* y1 Z( z4 fJustice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson said Lai should be allowed to remain in Canada while he launches further appeals to the federal deportation order — a process likely to take many months or longer.
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: M E$ f+ O* P% }, a" G5 tHis lawyer has said he will appeal the deportation to the United Nations if necessary.4 R5 [" ]: W3 e7 A: ~
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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.0 z; S, t9 M# ^
% A2 Y; D) D0 n" p; A9 r T# n9 cHe 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 $10 billion smuggling operation. His headquarters, the government alleges, was a pleasure palace where prostitutes entertained government officials. % X& v8 U: @/ ]$ C. O d4 B
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One 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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) r# Y! g2 |+ B* | u" `Canada has received diplomatic assurances that Lai will be spared execution. But Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has said Lai ought to be executed. + n" K* o N A
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Fourteen 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.+ |. c8 Y+ b9 ]7 q C
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