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Japan Tobacco Appeals Order to Stand Trial in $1 Billion Fraud
Jump to full article: Bloomberg News, 2008-01-16
Author: Elizabeth Amon
Intro: Japan Tobacco Inc.'s Canadian unit and a former tobacco executive will conclude a hearing tomorrow urging a judge to overturn an order requiring them to stand trial. The company is facing charges it helped defraud the Canadian government of about C$1 billion ($1 billion) in the 1990s by avoiding taxes through cigarette-smuggling operations into the U.S.
The Canadian government has asked Ontario Superior Court Judge Ian Nordheimer at the same hearing to overturn the part of the May 30 ruling and order six other tobacco executives to stand trial.
The case is Regina v. JTI-MacDonald Inc., Ontario Provincial Court (Toronto).
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