On July 9, 2014 a senior Chinese business man was arrested at Vancouver Airport pursuant to an Interpol Red Notice requested by France and a follow on Extradition Act arrest warrant alleging that the business man had participated in a conspiracy to defraud a large French company along with related offences , including money laundering.  The business man was released on bail after a lengthy contested bail hearing following which he instructed M+A to vigorously defend against the French extradition request. In order to carry out it’s assignment M+A retained senior French lawyers and then conducted extensive factual investigations in all of China, Canada and France. The results of the M+A investigations were presented to the French prosecutors and “Judge d’ Instruction” with the result that on today’s date the French authorities instructed Canada to withdraw their extradition request. In the result the extradition proceedings are now dismissed.