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* l' l4 M, ~4 Y  p& P9 MFederal Court stays deportation of China's most wanted man! l4 ]( q; P8 h) {5 | 
Last Updated Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:05:08 EDT  
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A Federal Court judge in Ottawa has stayed the deportation of Lai Changxing, China's most wanted man who is accused of bribing Chinese officials and smuggling $10 billion worth of goods. 
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4 {9 S# P; F7 V1 y' C1 zLai Changxing will be able to stay in Canada while appealing his deportation, a federal judge ruled Thursday. (Chuck Stoody/Canadian Press)   
4 N8 R$ G4 `0 P0 \9 z6 V% sJustice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson said Lai should be allowed to remain in Canada while he launches further appeals to the federal deportation order — a process likely to take many months or longer. 
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4 p; i4 q3 h) BHis lawyer has said he will appeal the deportation to the United Nations if necessary.  K$ L- ~, i$ J4 L, I& g 
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Lai, a billionaire who has been living in Vancouver and fighing the deportation order for years, claims he will be killed if he was deported back to China. 
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4 P3 \* W+ u3 z6 `5 |He maintains he is just a fall guy in China's crackdown on corruption, but Canada's Immigration Department has ruled he is a fugitive and not a refugee. China said he is guilty of tax evasion and bribery.  
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Chinese officials says Lai's company was a front for a $10 billion smuggling operation. His headquarters, the government alleges, was a pleasure palace where prostitutes entertained government officials. . T) b- L! |" u; O. C7 F, i 
 
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' T+ y& A1 P/ p/ vCanada has received diplomatic assurances that Lai will be spared execution. But Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has said Lai ought to be executed. $ L5 `$ q, ^6 j% ^  E" k/ Z( d4 S, w 
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Fourteen people have already been sentenced to death in the smuggling scandal and Lai is convinced he will be killed in prison if Canada deports him.5 A) R# n* u; i% A( U! h/ W! _ 
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