Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's conduct amounts to fraud under Canadian law...
FILE PHOTO: Huawei's Financial Chief Meng Wanzhou leaves her family home in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson
Meng’s legal team argued in November that the Huawei chief financial officer could not be extradited to the United States because her alleged conduct was not illegal in Canada. Canada did not have sanctions against Iran at the time Canadian officials authorized commencing with the extradition, her lawyers said.
“The essence of the Applicant’s conduct is fraud on a bank: the Applicant is alleged to have made several misrepresentations to a bank to secure financial services,” reads the government’s submissions in part.
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