Monday, 22 Mar 2021 07:40 PM MYT
Meng, 49, is accused by the United States of misleading HSBC about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s business dealings in Iran, causing the bank to break US sanctions. Meng says she is innocent and is fighting her extradition from house arrest in Vancouver. If extradited, Meng will face trial for bank fraud in the United States.
Canadian border officials questioned Meng for three hours before federal police arrested her on a US warrant in December 2018. Border officials seized Meng’s electronic devices and they later admitted to have given the passcodes to police in error. Last week, Fenton and another defence lawyer Mona Duckett disputed the stated motives of Canadian border officials when they were questioning Meng before her arrest by police, arguing that they were carrying out a covert investigation for the FBI.