Huawei Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wanzhou, leaves the British Columbia Supreme Court, in Vancouver on September 28, 2020. — AFPChinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and her lawyers returned to a Canadian court on Monday to press for her release, arguing that the United States, by omitting key facts, blatantly misled Canada about her alleged crimes to secure her arrest.
“The misstatements omissions in the record of the case,“ he told the British Columbia Supreme Court, “go to the very heart of the fraud case.”The Chinese telecom giant’s chief financial officer was arrested on a US warrant in December 2018 during a stopover in Vancouver. Nine days after Meng’s arrest, China detained former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor in what is widely viewed as retaliation over Meng.
She appeared in person on Monday for the first time in months, wearing a face mask, in accordance with public health rules, and an electronic monitoring anklet as a condition of her bail. They note that Skycom employees had Huawei email addresses and badges, and that Skycom’s leadership were Huawei employees - including Meng, who has admitted to serving previously on its board.
It pointed to a presentation Meng made in 2013 to an HSBC executive after the British banking group, worried over potential Iran exposure, requested an explanation.“The purpose of the meeting was sanctions compliance, whether Huawei and Skycom were doing business in Iran, and Meng was candid,“ said defense lawyer Frank Addario.
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