Canadian judge clears deportation of Chinese fugitive after assurances from Beijing

Victoria (British Columbia, Canada), July 22 (ANI): British Columbia judge Justice Michael Shore has cleared the decks for the quick deportation of "common criminal fugitive" Lai Changxing.

He passed the deportation order after receiving assurances from the Chinese government that Lai will not tortured or executed for masterminding a multi-billion-dollar smuggling network that imported consumer goods in the city of Xiamen.

Fifty-two-year-old Lai feared that like his brother and accountant he would meet a mysterious prison death.

But Mr. Justice Michel Shore said the assurances provided by the Chinese government nullified those concerns.

Canadian picked up Lai Police at a Niagara Falls casino in 2000.

"It is assumed that the assurances of the Chinese government, as per its written promises, will be kept, as the Chinese government's honour and face is, and will be, bound and kept respectively, by the monitoring for the lifetime of the applicant...," Judge Shore wrote in his ruling, issued late Thursday. (ANI)