Lai Changxing won't face execution
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Local prosecutors said on Monday that Lai Changxing, who confessed to running one of the largest smuggling operations in the nation's history, will not face execution for his crimes.
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Lai Changxing was repatriated back to China on July 23, 2011, 12 years after being on the run in Canada. Chinese police announced his arrest, and read him his rights, including hiring lawyers to defend him, at Beijing Capital International Airport. [File photo] |
The 53-year-old from Fujian Province stands accused of running a multibillion-dollar smuggling group in the 1990s in Xiamen, a costal city of Fujian Province, and paying bribes while serving as the chairman of Yuanhua Group in Xiamen.
The city court of Xiamen has taken on the case, according to the statement.
Lai and the other suspects have confessed.
"If charged with smuggling common goods and bribery, Lai will face the maximum jail term of life imprisonment rather than death penalty," Li Guifang, vice-director of the criminal defense committee under the All-China Lawyers Association, said on Monday.
If only accused of these two crimes, Lai surely will not face the death penalty, which also reflects Chinese judicial organs' desire to "fulfill its commitment to the Canadian side that no death penalty would be applied to Lai," Li said.
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