China charges fugitive businessman with smuggling
- Published: 14/02/2012 at 04:32 AM
- Online news: Asia
Prosecutors in southeast China have brought formal charges of bribery and smuggling against a fugitive businessman repatriated from Canada in a bitter deportation row, state press said Monday.
This TV grab taken in 2011 from China's Central Television shows fugitive Chinese businessman Lai Changxing escorted by Chinese authorities in Beijing. Prosecutors in southeast China have brought formal charges of bribery and smuggling against the fugitive businessman repatriated from Canada in a bitter deportation row, state press said Monday.
The charges against Lai Changxing are expected to be heard by the Xiamen Intermediate Court in Fujian province at an unspecified date, China National Radio said.
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