The State - News from Nov. 27, 1988

Charles McVey, a former Anaheim businessman accused of selling millions of dollarsworth of sensitive satellite technology to the Soviet Union, won another legal round in British Columbia courts in his fight against extradition to stand trial in the United States. McVey had been a fugitive for four years when he was arrested Aug. 19 while on a fishing trip in Canada’s Yukon Territory. In its latest ruling, the British Columbia Court of Appeal dismissed a U.S. request that McVey be extradited on a charge of falsifying documents used in the sale of the technology. The appeal court said the alleged falsification is not one of the crimes listed in the U.S.-Canada extradition treaty. Canadian jurists ruled earlier that the crime for which McVey is wanted in California is not an extraditable offense in Canada. Last Aug. 5, McVey was ordered extradited on separate charges of wire fraud and defrauding the defunct Saxpy Computer Corp. He is appealing that ruling and will remain in custody in Vancouver pending the appeal.