Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Huawei CFO's lawyers set to grill witnesses as U.S. extradition case resumes

By Tessa Vikander and Moira Warburton
VANCOUVER/TORONTO (Reuters) - The second day of witness testimony in the extradition case of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou to the United States will kick off in a Canada courtroom on Tuesday, when her lawyers are expected to question officials involved in her 2018 arrest.
The five days of scheduled hearings will focus on allegations by her lawyers of abuses of process committed by Canadian and U.S. authorities during her arrest in December two years ago at the Vancouver International Airport.
Meng, 48, is facing charges in the United States of bank fraud for allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei's [HWT.UL] business dealings in Iran, causing the bank to break U.S. sanction laws.
She has denied the charges and is fighting extradition from under house arrest in her ...


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