A Canadian prosecutor yesterday urged lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to “leave the politics to the politicians,” after they cited statements by former US president Donald Trump in fighting her extradition to the United States.
“Everyone in this courtroom knows that the elephant in the room in this case has always been the geopolitical winds that swirl around it,” crown attorney Robert Frater said. It is up to the country’s justice minister, not a judge, to decide whether geopolitical considerations can cancel an extradition procedure, he said.Chief financial officer Meng, 49, is accused of having lied to the HSBC investment bank about the company’s relationship with subsidiary Skycom, putting the bank at risk of violating US sanctions against Iran as it continued to clear US dollar transactions for Huawei.
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