Peter Adekeye Freed, Judge Outraged At Cisco's Involvement

puppetman writes "Ars Technica has an article relating the recent release of Peter Adekeye, a former Cisco employee who was arrested in Canada on trumped-up charges that appear to have been fabricated by Cisco. Slashdot covered the story back in April, 2011, during which time Mr Adekeye was still being detained. In the ruling, the judge squashed the US extradition request, rebuked both the Canadian and American authorities for 'an appalling abuse of process,' and goes as far as to say that the criminal proceeding was launched on behalf of Cisco, to mirror the civil proceedings that Mr Adekeye had launched against the powerful Cisco." The full judgement (PDF) is quite readable and damning.

Re:Yay.

[Esteanil]

Oh, and a good way to force Cisco to make some kind of statement would be to request them from your Cisco representatives, on Cisco forums like http://forums.cisco.com/ecom/web/sms3/forums/-/message_boards/category/13121 [cisco.com] , etc.

Sending printed letters to

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose, CA 95134 USA

is also probably a good idea.

I mean, if they lay flat, fire the legal team in question and commit to publically planning how to ensure abuses of process of this scale, or even far lower scales will never happen again, that'd probably be a good move.

If they don't respond with a great amount of humility and regret, I know I'll stay as far away from Cisco and their surrounding chain of companies as practical, and make a habit of informing my customers on good reasons to avoid Cisco.

Minor correction :-p

Re:So

[hedwards]

You mean, except get bin Laden, get Healthcare reform passed and stave off another Great Depression.

But, yeah obviously he's only been talking because none of that ever happened...

Re:So

[Grygus]

This Congress would never permit anything like the actions the American government took in the 30s, even if Obama were championing such a thing. Just one example: in 1936, we raised the tax rate on the rich from 63% to 79% while holding everyone else's taxes steady.

Reminder: Cisco owns Linksys

[gaiageek]

Linksys being a brand much more likely to be found in your average home, for those who want to protest with their wallets - an act which I highly encourage in this case.

That would be new.

[LoyalOpposition]

the judge squashed the US extradition request,

Extradition requests are frequently quashed, seldom squashed.

~Loyal