Beijing: China’s smuggling kingpin Lai Changxing was repatriated back from Canada on Saturday, bringing to an end more than a decade of legal and diplomatic tug-of-war that tested the countries’ relations.
As 53-year-old Lai, who is the chief suspect of a multi-billion-dollar smuggling case in the southeastern city of Xiamen in the 1990s, was brought here from Vancouver by Canadian official at the Beijing airport the Chinese police announced his arrest and took him into custody, an official statement here said.
“Lai’s repatriation once again shows that no matter where a criminal suspect flees, he or she cannot evade legal sanctions in the end,” it said. It said the Chinese government has attached great importance to Lai’s extradition in recent years.
The relevant departments have made unremitting efforts to “crackdown severely on economic crimes and to honour the dignity of national judicial sovereignty and law,” the statement underlined. (PTI)