As Huawei CFO case enters final weeks, lawyer questions information in U.S. extradition request
By Moira Warburton
Reuters
VANCOUVER (Reuters) -Lawyers making a final push to convince a Canadian court not to recommend the extradition of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou on Wednesday called into question the reliability of information provided by the United States in its extradition request.
Meng has returned to a Canadian courtroom for the final weeks of her U.S. extradition hearings, as the legal proceedings running more than two years draw to a close.
Meng, 49, was arrested in December 2018 at Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the United States, charging her with misleading HSBC Holdings PLC about Huawei s business dealings in Iran, potentially causing the bank to violate American economic sanctions.
Meng extradition case concluding By RENA LI in Vancouver | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-08-05 11:10 Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou returns to court following a break in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 4, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was back in British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver on Wednesday for the final stretch of extradition proceedings that could send her to the US.
Over the next several weeks, Meng s defense team will argue that the US manipulated the case for committal and the certified evidence before the court; that the US has both mischaracterized evidence and omitted other evidence in order to establish fraud; and that its misconduct in certifying misleading evidence , coupled with its shifting theory of the case, has corroded the fairness of the Canadian legal proceedings, according to a statement released by Huawei on
Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was back in British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver on Wednesday for the final stretch of extradition proceedings that could send her to the US.
Meng has returned to a Canadian courtroom for the final weeks of her U.S. extradition hearings, as the legal proceedings running more than two years draw to a close.
New extradition hearings of the chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei kicked off Wednesday in Vancouver, after nearly three years of court battles and diplomatic sparring.