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Judge Finds Cisco, US Authorities Deceived Canadian Courts

Posted by timothy on from the cisco-kids dept.

djmurdoch writes "The Vancouver Sun reports that 'The giant computer company Cisco and US prosecutors deceived Canadian authorities and courts in a massive abuse of process to have a former executive thrown in jail, says a B.C. Supreme Court judge.' Peter Adelkeye was arrested last year as he was testifying in a special hearing in Vancouver. It turns out he was there because US authorities would not grant him permission to enter the US to testify in a civil case between him and Cisco. The Canadian judge said that almost nothing in the US Attorney's letter was true, and has overturned his extradition order. Slashdot discussed this case in April."

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  1. Re:Anti-trust suit by wombatmobile · · Score: 4, Informative

    From previous articles:

    Cisco Systems orchestrated the arrest of Multiven founder Peter Alfred-Adekeye last year in order to force a settlement of Multiven's antitrust lawsuit against Cisco.

    Multiven, sued Cisco in December 2008, accusing the company of monopolizing the business of servicing and maintaining Cisco enterprise equipment. Cisco forced owners of gear such as routers, switches and firewalls to buy its SMARTnet service contracts in order to get regular software updates and bug fixes, Multiven said. By providing updates and bug fixes only to SMARTnet customers and not to third parties, Cisco prevented independent companies from servicing its equipment, Multiven alleged.

    The SMARTnet service is a hot-button issue with some customers, who feel that Cisco should provide basic bug fixes and software updates free of charge as Microsoft or Apple do.

  2. Re:how much was actually done by the US gov't? by Effexor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Let me help you.

    'U.S. prosecutors acted outrageously'...
    'The U.S. claimed'...
    'U.S. prosecutors falsely portrayed'...
    'left the U.S. in 2008 and was denied re-entry when he attempted to return to participate in the litigation'

    So yes, I guess they really were Cisco's attorneys.

    --

    As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible -W.B.

  3. Re:RCMP - Royal Canadian Monopoly Police by BForrester · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's simply not the case.

    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/unhappy-mounties-sick-of-being-private-copyright-cops.ars