Fugitive Chinese businessman fights to stay in Canada

Posted, 2015-05-02

A 2016 Federal Court of Canada trial could finally determine which of two versions of reality has more credibility in connection with the plight of wealthy Vancouver businessman and Chinese fugitive Mo Yeung Ching. Was Ching simply a businessman engaged in a relatively innocuous business transaction who ended up being a victim of evidence extracted through politically motivated torture? Or is he, as the federal government has argued in court, someone facing evidence of "serious criminality" who must be sent back to China to face justice? That position was taken in a 2011 ruling on appeal by Kashi Mattu, heading a one-person panel of the IRB's Immigration Appeal Division.

Michael Ching (shown top left) in 2011 in Richmond, BC in group with Michael Ignatieff at centre.