Accused High-Tech Smuggler Loses Again in Canada Courts
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VANCOUVER, Canada — Accused American high-tech smuggler Charles McVey lost another round in his complex legal battle to avoid extradition to the United States.
McVey failed Friday to win an appeal after 3 days of arguments before the British Columbia Supreme Court.
The U.S. government is attempting to extradite McVey, 63, to face charges of selling classified high-technology computer equipment to the Soviet Union.
There has been a series of legal battles and appeals in the case, which started when McVey was arrested in August, 1987, while on a fishing trip to the Yukon.
McVey, being held in Vancouver, was indicted in 1983 by the U.S. government on conspiracy-related charges in connection with the shipment of computer equipment to the Soviet Union from four computer shops he owned in Anaheim.
McVey has denied he was part of a scheme to defraud the California-based Saxpy Computer Corp. of proprietary rights to its supercomputer.
Friday’s legal action related to an Aug. 5 order by Justice Alan MacDonell that McVey be extradited.
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