Immigration Gives Bail to Chinese Fugitive Lai

On March 9, 2001, Alistain Boulton, counsel for fugitive Chinese businessman Lai Changxing and his wife, Tsang Mingna, announced that the Canadian Immigration authorities had allowed their release under a house arrest scheme. The couple had been detained since November 23, 2000. The P.R.C. seeks Lai on charges of directing a multi-billion-dollar massive smuggle ring, for which the P.R.C. already has sentenced 14 people to death and implicated some 200 government officials and businessmen…[more]