A long flight from US justice ended for a fugitive yesterday when he agreed to be extradited to stand trial.
Mainland-born US citizen Peter Yeung Ping-shan, whose flight from justice included escaping from his hospital bed after open-heart surgery, signed a deal at Eastern Court ending six years on the run from US prosecution.
Yeung's case is the first American request for extradition since the handover.
The US government hunt began in 1992, after the New York District Court issued a warrant for his arrest over 183 alleged offences said to have taken place between February 1990 and April 1991 and to involve US$11 million (HK$85.1 million).
Yeung, 57, is wanted for alleged conspiracy to defraud the US Government, smuggling clothes into the US and importing clothes labelled with false country-of-origin tags on 91 occasions.
The 182 consignments of clothing, said to be from Portugal, Mozambique and Mauritius, were all made in China but Yeung fooled the US Government with false certificates, invoices and bills of lading, magistrate Garry Tallentire heard.
