Lawyers for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou argue that the United States misled Canada’s justice system in seeking her extradition
Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, arrives at B.C. Supreme Court to attend her extradition hearing, in Vancouver on Aug. 4, 2021.The United States deliberately misled Canada’s justice system about the evidence against Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou in seeking her extradition, her lawyers told a B.C. court on Wednesday.
The fraud charge against Ms. Meng, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., is focused on a PowerPoint presentation she gave to officials of HSBC, a multinational bank, in a Hong Kong tea room in 2013. The United States says she lied about Huawei’s connection to another company, Skycom Tech Co. Ltd., so that it could do business in Iran, thereby evading U.S. sanctions. Banks that provided U.S.
He said that the U.S. theory of the case is implausible, in portraying “an innocent bank being duped” after relying on a single PowerPoint presentation to make a big decision about a major customer. The extradition case has caused a rupture in Canada-China relations. The United States asked the RCMP to arrest Ms. Meng, and it did so on Dec. 1, 2018. Soon after, China detained two Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, in a move widely seen as a reprisal. They have been incarcerated for 969 days. Ms. Meng is free on bail and living in a mansion.
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