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by Mike Caswell

Vancouver lawyer Martin Chambers, who is serving a 16-year sentence for money laundering in the United States, will soon return to Canada a free man. After a previous refusal, the Minister of Public Safety has approved Mr. Chambers's transfer to a Canadian institution. The transfer means he will go free upon his arrival, because he has already served more time than he would have had he committed his crime in Canada.

Mr. Chambers, 75, has been trying to return to Canada for some time. U.S. authorities approved him for a transfer on Sept. 4, 2013, but the problem was that Canada refused to accept him. Corrections officials in Canada said that provisions in prisoner transfer rules made it impossible for him to come home. Those rules required him to have at least six months remaining on his sentence, they said. Since Mr. Chambers would qualify for immediate release upon his arrival, he did not meet the six-month requirement.

The matter spent some time before various levels of court before the Minister of Public Safety finally relented and allowed Mr. Chambers to come home. He will likely return in March, 2015, after the Bureau of Prisons moves him to the Federal Detention Center in Seattle. He is presently incarcerated at a federal prison in Forrest City, Ark., which is about 50 miles west of Memphis.

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