This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The U.S. is accusing Meng Wanzhou, seen here on Jan. 22, 2020, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies. Co. Ltd., of fraud, for alleged lies it says she told several banks in an attempt to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran.
The focus of the extradition hearing, which began Monday, has been on whether the crime Ms. Meng is accused of committing exists in Canada. Ms. Meng’s legal team argues that the essence of her alleged offence was evasion of the sanctions – sanctions which Canada decided independently to drop in 2016. The Canadian government, which is presenting the case on behalf of the U.S. Justice Department, says the case is about fraud, not sanctions.
He then cited a 2001 Ontario Court of Appeal ruling in the case of Karlheinz Schreiber, a German arms dealer who was eventually extradited for tax evasion for not declaring secret commissions he received. That ruling, he said, established that it is for the Canadian justice minister, not the extradition judge, to decide whether the context of a particular foreign law is unjust.
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Lawyers for Canada's attorney general to argue for extradition of Meng WanzhouLawyers representing the Canadian attorney general are set to begin arguments today at an extradition hearing for Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou.
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Prosecutors say alleged bank fraud at heart of Meng Wanzhou’s extradition caseThe U.S. has charged Meng with bank fraud, and accused her of misleading HSBC Holdings Plc about Huawei’s business in Iran Still I am not clear what crime she committed in Canada!
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