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a canadian judge has turned down a last-minute appeal by a german businessman against his ¹ on ² charges.

一位加拿大法官拒绝了一位获贪污指控德国商人的最后引渡申请。

karleinz schreiber has been fighting extradition for almost 10 years

karlheinz schreiber, 75, is wanted for tax ³（逃税，漏税）, ⁴ and fraud（欺诈，欺骗） in germany, and has been fighting extradition（引渡逃犯） for nearly 10 years.

he figured in a fund-raising scandal involving ex-chancellor helmut kohl.

canadian media say mr schreiber, who denies wrongdoing, was on a flight headed for germany as of sunday night.

he had appealed at a court in ontario against his ⁵（逼近的，即将发生的） extradition.

canadian case

mr schreiber is accused in germany of ⁶ taxes on millions of dollars from commissions for arms deals.

he was also at the centre of a scandal surrounding the funding of helmut kohl's ^{7 8} party, the cdu.

the scandal began with the ⁹ of a series of undeclared contributions given by mr schreiber.

mr schreiber, who has both german and canadian ¹⁰, was arrested under a german warrant in canada in 1999. he was released on ¹¹ in 2007.

in a separate, canadian case, he has been testifying at a public ¹² about his financial dealings with that country's former prime minister, brian mulroney.

mr mulroney has acknowledged taking c$225,000 (£125,000) from mr schreiber in return for promoting a project for a german company, though he denies mr schreiber's claim that the money was exchanged while he was still in office.

public hearings on the case ended last week.