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China’s most wanted fugitive battling to stay in Canada
Nick Procaylo/Postmedia News
By Reuters, National Post July 21, 2011 – 11:00 pm ET
By Greg Joyce
VANCOUVER – The Federal Court of Canada cleared the way Thursday for the extradition of China’s most wanted man, dismissing concerns that he could be tortured or executed back home.
Judge Michel Shore refused a request to stay the deportation of Lai Changxing, accused by Beijing of running a multi-billion-dollar smuggling operation in China in the 1990s.
Lai’s lawyer, David Matas, told Reuters in an email earlier today that if Shore ruled against his client, there were no further legal avenues to be pursued. Canadian government lawyer Helen Park said at the hearing that he could be extradited as early as Saturday.
China has told Canada in a diplomatic note that it would not put Lai to death or torture him, and that Canadian officials would have access to him.
“The Chinese government says it is assuring safeguards,” Shore told Matas during the Ottawa court hearing, which was relayed by teleconference to British Columbia, where Lai is in detention.
Shore said these were “extraordinary” assurances from China, and he asked if the high profile of this case would not guarantee Lai’s safety.
“These are not adequate assurances. They don’t amount to anything,” Matas replied.
Lai fled to Canada with his family in 1999 and claimed refugee status, saying the allegations against him were politically motivated. Canada rejected his refugee claim, and he was taken into custody and nearly deported two weeks ago.
China says Lai bribed Chinese officials to avoid paying taxes and duties on goods ranging from fuel to cigarettes that were shipped into China’s southeastern Fujian province.
Lai admitted in a 2009 interview with the Globe and Mail newspaper that he had avoided taxes by taking advantage of loopholes in the law, but he denied bribery charges. He said if he were not in Canada he would have been executed by now.
Matas said Lai’s brother and his accountant had both died in prison of unexplained causes and that the same fate could await Lai.
“He too could die in prison without an autopsy and without any explanation. The assurances do not provide for an autopsy, or even a viewing of the corpse,” Matas said in a written submission.
“The notion that criminal procedures or the death penalty are easily verifiable is misplaced. The death penalty and criminal procedure assurances suffer from the problem that the courts in China are not public.”
Matas said China has only assured that when the court holds open hearings into his case, Canadian officials may attend. He quoted the U.S. State Department as saying that Chinese courts use state-secret provisions to keep politically sensitive proceedings closed to the public, to counsel and to foreign observers.
Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board ruled on Wednesday that Lai could be released pending Thursday’s hearing. The federal government quickly won a stay of that decision from another Federal Court judge, James O’Reilly, and kept Lai in custody.
© Thomson Reuters 2011
© National Post 2011
Nick Procaylo/Postmedia News
By Reuters, National Post July 21, 2011 – 11:00 pm ET
By Greg Joyce
VANCOUVER – The Federal Court of Canada cleared the way Thursday for the extradition of China’s most wanted man, dismissing concerns that he could be tortured or executed back home.
Judge Michel Shore refused a request to stay the deportation of Lai Changxing, accused by Beijing of running a multi-billion-dollar smuggling operation in China in the 1990s.
Lai’s lawyer, David Matas, told Reuters in an email earlier today that if Shore ruled against his client, there were no further legal avenues to be pursued. Canadian government lawyer Helen Park said at the hearing that he could be extradited as early as Saturday.
China has told Canada in a diplomatic note that it would not put Lai to death or torture him, and that Canadian officials would have access to him.
“The Chinese government says it is assuring safeguards,” Shore told Matas during the Ottawa court hearing, which was relayed by teleconference to British Columbia, where Lai is in detention.
Shore said these were “extraordinary” assurances from China, and he asked if the high profile of this case would not guarantee Lai’s safety.
“These are not adequate assurances. They don’t amount to anything,” Matas replied.
Lai fled to Canada with his family in 1999 and claimed refugee status, saying the allegations against him were politically motivated. Canada rejected his refugee claim, and he was taken into custody and nearly deported two weeks ago.
China says Lai bribed Chinese officials to avoid paying taxes and duties on goods ranging from fuel to cigarettes that were shipped into China’s southeastern Fujian province.
Lai admitted in a 2009 interview with the Globe and Mail newspaper that he had avoided taxes by taking advantage of loopholes in the law, but he denied bribery charges. He said if he were not in Canada he would have been executed by now.
Matas said Lai’s brother and his accountant had both died in prison of unexplained causes and that the same fate could await Lai.
“He too could die in prison without an autopsy and without any explanation. The assurances do not provide for an autopsy, or even a viewing of the corpse,” Matas said in a written submission.
“The notion that criminal procedures or the death penalty are easily verifiable is misplaced. The death penalty and criminal procedure assurances suffer from the problem that the courts in China are not public.”
Matas said China has only assured that when the court holds open hearings into his case, Canadian officials may attend. He quoted the U.S. State Department as saying that Chinese courts use state-secret provisions to keep politically sensitive proceedings closed to the public, to counsel and to foreign observers.
Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board ruled on Wednesday that Lai could be released pending Thursday’s hearing. The federal government quickly won a stay of that decision from another Federal Court judge, James O’Reilly, and kept Lai in custody.
© Thomson Reuters 2011
© National Post 2011
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中石油，中石化赚钱是合法。
老赖赚钱是犯罪。
如果进口比自己炼油还便宜，就少炼点油罗。还保护了自己的资源和环境。
中石油，中石化把油卖得太贵！！！！
中石油，中石化赚钱是合法。
老赖赚钱是犯罪。
如果进口比自己炼油还便宜，就少炼点油罗。还保护了自己的资源和环境。
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说得一点都不错。老赖同高山的犯罪性质完全不同。
