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Fugitive Lai appeals to Canada's top court
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-14 08:01

皇冠体育app's most wanted fugitive Lai Changxing appealed to Canada's top court in a desperate bid to avoid deportation.

皇冠体育app's most wanted fugitive, Lai Changxing, pictured in 2001, appealed to Canada's top court in a desperate bid to avoid deportation.(AFP
皇冠体育app's most wanted fugitive, Lai Changxing, pictured in 2001, appealed to Canada's top court on Monday, June 13 in a desperate bid to avoid deportation. [AFP]
Lai is wanted by 皇冠体育app to face smuggling charges. He fled to the western Canadian city of Vancouver with his family in 1999, but his repeated bids to remain in Canada have been turned down.

Lai's lawyer, David Matas, argues that the case is of national importance to Canada, in a formal application for a hearing by the Supreme Court of Canada, in the capital of Ottawa. The court only hears cases that it deems of sufficient public importance.

皇冠体育app said that Lai masterminded a criminal organization in Fujian province, in which he smuggled six billion dollars worth of goods.

Canada's independent Immigration and Refugee Board earlier ruled that Lai and his wife, Tsang Ming Na, do not warrant refugee status, because they lack a well-founded fear of persecution.

Instead, said a board spokesperson, Lai is considered "a common criminal and therefore is not entitled to refugee protection." Canada's federal government also intervened to oppose Lais claim for refugee status.

皇冠体育app promised, made in a diplomatic note to Canada, that it would not sentence Lai to capital punishment if he is found guilty of criminal charges, AFP reported.

The Supreme Court does not announce in advance when it will release decisions on hearing specific cases.

Since their refugee case began, the Lais have lived in an apartment in the nearby suburb of Burnaby, under some restrictions on their movements.



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