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A team of lawyers for Meng Wanzhou, 49, will seek to convince a Vancouver judge in hearings that begin Wednesday that the U.S. request to extradite her from Canada is deeply flawed, that her rights were abused, and that she should be released. If history is any guide, that argument will be tough of the 798 U.S. handover requests received since 2008, Canada has only refused or discharged eight, according to Canada’s Department of Justice. Forty cases were withdrawn by the U.S.
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Toronto, Jul 9 (EFE).- The Canadian judge who will rule on the request from the United States to extradite Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou said Friday that she will not admit evidence appearing to discredit Washington’s charges against the Chinese executive.
Heather Holmes, a justice of the British Columbia provincial Supreme Court sided with the Canadian prosecutors, who argued that the evidence was irrelevant to the extradition process.
Meng, the daughter of Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, was detained by Canada on Dec. 1, 2018, during a stopover in Vancouver en route from Hong Kong to Mexico City.
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Toronto, Jul 8 (EFE).- Internal documents from HSBC bank show that prosecutors in the United States lied to Canadian authorities to secure the arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, an executive with the Chinese technology giant’s Canada unit said Thursday.
Meng, the daughter of Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, was detained by Canada on Dec. 1, 2018, during a stopover in Vancouver en route from Hong Kong to Mexico City.
She is accused of violating US sanctions on Iran by misleading banks about the business her company allegedly conducted in that country through a subsidiary called Skycom.