{"id":12086,"date":"2007-04-05T23:13:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T06:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/05\/smuggler-lai-wins-canadian-court-reprieve-ap\/"},"modified":"2007-04-05T23:13:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T06:13:25","slug":"smuggler-lai-wins-canadian-court-reprieve-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/smuggler-lai-wins-canadian-court-reprieve-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Smuggler Lai Wins Canadian Court Reprieve – AP"},"content":{"rendered":"

From AP, via China Daily:
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The Canadian official who approved Lai’<\/a>s removal order failed to properly consider Lai’s claim that he would be tortured, a Federal Court judge ruled…<\/p>\n

The slow pace of Lai’s deportation case — which has gone on for seven years — has become a thorn in Chinese-Canadian relations even though Ottawa has supported Beijing’s efforts to have him returned…<\/p>\n

Lai is accused of running a multibillion-dollar operation that bribed officials and police to avoid taxes and duties on goods ranging from oil to cigarettes that were smuggled into China’s Fujian province in the 1990s.
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See Time Magazine’s cover story Smuggler’s Blues<\/a>,<\/p>\n


\nwhich says “To get an audience with China’s most wanted man, you drive past Mr. Kim’s Kimchee Emporium, Chan’s No. 1 Chinese Language Tax Accountancy and the One-Stop XXX Adult Shop. Eventually, you pull up at the Crystal Palace”a deceptively named apartment complex in Burnaby, a dismal strip-mall suburb of Vancouver full of Asian immigrants. The elevator takes you to the 17th floor. You disembark and a cheap plywood door opens. There stands a man with slumped shoulders, his once merry cheeks deflated. Behind him, dishes are stacked high in a crowded kitchenette, the greasy smells of a Chinese breakfast congealing in the stale air. “Hello,” he says softly, searching for more English ords before shrugging apologetically and repeating his one English word again. “Hello, hello, hello.”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From AP, via China Daily: The Canadian official who approved Lai’s removal order failed to properly consider Lai’s claim that he would be tortured, a Federal Court judge ruled… The slow pace of Lai’s deportation case — which has gone on for seven years — has become a thorn in Chinese-Canadian relations even though Ottawa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[203,2083],"class_list":["post-12086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","tag-corruption","tag-lai-changxing","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nSmuggler Lai Wins Canadian Court Reprieve - AP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/smuggler-lai-wins-canadian-court-reprieve-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smuggler Lai Wins Canadian Court Reprieve - 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