Diplomats in contact with Lai
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February 9, 2012, Thursday
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CANADIAN diplomats have had regular access to China's most wanted man, who was deported from Canada last year after a decades-long legal battle to face smuggling charges, a Canadian official said yesterday.
China had sought the deportation of Lai Changxing for years, accusing him of running a multi-billion dollar smuggling ring in the southeastern city of Xiamen in the 1990s.
The official dismissed suggestions that China had barred visits to Lai, who arrived back in China in July after losing a legal battle to stay in Canada.
"Diplomats have had regular consular access to Lai," the Canadian official said, declining to comment further.
Lai fled to Canada with his family in 1999 and claimed refugee status, saying the allegations against him were "politically motivated."
China has accused Lai's business empire, the Yuanhua Group, of bribing government officials to allow a massive smuggling ring in a scandal that implicated more than 200 senior figures.
China had sought the deportation of Lai Changxing for years, accusing him of running a multi-billion dollar smuggling ring in the southeastern city of Xiamen in the 1990s.
The official dismissed suggestions that China had barred visits to Lai, who arrived back in China in July after losing a legal battle to stay in Canada.
"Diplomats have had regular consular access to Lai," the Canadian official said, declining to comment further.
Lai fled to Canada with his family in 1999 and claimed refugee status, saying the allegations against him were "politically motivated."
China has accused Lai's business empire, the Yuanhua Group, of bribing government officials to allow a massive smuggling ring in a scandal that implicated more than 200 senior figures.
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