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Posted: Dec 10, 2020 12:23 PM AT | Last Updated: December 10, 2020
Nader Kalai is a Syrian national who has permanent resident status in Canada.(Facebook)
A Nova Scotia court has acquitted a Halifax man on a charge he violated Canada s trade sanctions against Syria.
Nader Kalai, a Syrian national with permanent residency in Canada, is known to be a close associate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Canada is one of several western countries that have imposed trade sanctions against Syria for human-rights violations.
At the opening of the trial earlier this week, federal Crown prosecutor David Schermbrucker told the judge he would be calling no evidence and asked that Kalai be acquitted. Justice John Bodurtha granted the acquittal on the single count.