Robert Lloyd Schellenberg faces hearing in Liaoning as Ottawa-Beijing relations remain frosty after arrest of Huawei CFO
A Canadian man is to appear before a court in north-eastern China on Saturday on drugs charges, a government-run news portal said, amid frosty relations between Beijing and Ottawa.
The Liaoning people’s high court identified the man as Robert Lloyd Schellenberg.
In a brief statement published on Wednesday, the court said he was appealing against a drug smuggling case at 2pm (0600 GMT) on Saturday but gave no further details.
A government news portal, runsky.com, said Schellenberg was Canadian and had smuggled an “enormous amount” of drugs.
It mockingly admired the Canadian’s gall for “actually daring to smuggle drugs into China”, which still has the death penalty for drug trafficking.
