By Moira Warburton
(Reuters) - Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou and the Canadian government are on Wednesday expected to cross examine more witnesses involved with Meng's 2018 arrest as part of her fight against an extradition request from the United States.
Meng, 48, was arrested at Vancouver International Airport in December 2018 while on a layover bound for Mexico. The United States charged her with bank fraud for allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.'s business dealings in Iran, causing the bank to break U.S. sanctions.
She has claimed innocence and is fighting the charges from Vancouver, where she is under house arrest in her home in Shaughnessy, one of Vancouver's wealthiest neighbourhoods.
Meng's arrest triggered an ongoing chill in diplomatic relations between Ottawa and Beijing. Soon after her detention, ...
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