Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou is set to return to a Vancouver cour...
VANCOUVER - Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou is set to return to a Vancouver court on Tuesday, where her lawyers will build on their arguments against the U.S. extradition request that they say is based a sanctions violation and not bank fraud.
The United States has charged Meng with bank fraud, and accused her of misleading HSBC Holdings Plc about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s business in Iran. Meng, the daughter of Huawei’s billionaire founder Ren Zhengfei, remains free on bail in Canada, and has been living in a mansion in Vancouver’s exclusive Shaughnessy neighborhood.
On Monday, defense lawyer Richard Peck told the court that in a typical case, double criminality is not contentious. “This case however is founded on an allegation of breach of U.S. sanctions, sanctions which Canada has expressly repudiated,” he said. Meng’s legal team is currently only scheduled to call evidence in the last week of April, and a second phase of the extradition hearing, focusing on abuse of process and whether Canadian officials followed the law while arresting Meng, is set to begin in June. Closing arguments are expected in the last week of September and first week of October.
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