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Delaying the arrest of Meng Wanzhou airport until after a border trial was not an FBI plot, a hearing is reported
The decision to delay the arrest of Meng Wanzhou was not made until Canadian border officials were first questioned in a three-hour investigation at Vancouver airport led by police or the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The U.S. to gather evidence against it, Canadian government lawyers told the Huawei Government extradition hearing Wednesday. Lawyer Diba Majzub told Chief Justice Heather Holmes of the High Court of British Columbia that Meng was going through “normal procedures” of the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA). “It wasn’t the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] telling the CBSA ‘would you go first and do something for us?’ The CBI was not speaking to the FBI. That decision was made by the CBSA, ”said Majzub. Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge, our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analytics and infographics brought to you by our successful team. The decision by the border officers that their trial should prioritize the arrest by the RCMP on December 1, 2018 – on a warrant that said Meng should be arrested “immediately ”- reasonable in the context of a port of entry, Majzub said. The RCMP officers in charge of Meng’s arrest also acknowledged that they were on a “turf” CBSA, Majzub said. “The immediate requirement in the warranty was not the main reason,” in determining which requirements of priority organizations, Majzub said. “Context is important, that’s the point,” he said, and the immediate requirement of the warranty was not “a command to avoid cause”. Meng’s lawyers claim she was arrested on a warrant sought by the U.S., to go against a lawsuit for fraud in New York, filed by one business so that the border officers could act as agents for the FBI to conduct a covert criminal investigation. Rejecting Meng’s ‘interesting statement’ about abuse, Canadian government lawyer says They say it was not a legitimate immigration process to question and seize the electronic devices and her wrapping codes, but that it was an illegal attempt to examine it on behalf of the Americans. Meng claims that it will be expanded on the basis that her employment rights in Canada have been abused so “egregiously” that the only remedy is to stay proceedings. But government lawyers say the abuse did not happen. Meng’s claim that conspiracy between the FBI, RCMP and CBSA was based on nothing more than “profiteering and innuendo”, they say. The RCMP gained no benefit from the delay in his arrest, Majzub said. In a written submission, the government argued that the RCMP was “handling the sequence of processes” to disadvantage Meng “completely speculatively”. And while the border officials knew that Meng was going to be arrested, their pursuit of a crime against Meng was legitimate in order to bring her consent into Canada, Majzub said, and that bringing forward the U.S. prosecution. It turned out that the reason for her arrest was the only reason for her arrest, he said. “[The] CBSA had national security concerns and criminal incompetence, ”the application said. Lawyer Meng Wanzhou blasts ex-Mountie for refusing to ‘shock’ evidence that Majzub walked the judge through the various arguments Meng’s lawyers have used to support their claims that the border procedures had a valid immigration reason. [The border officers] they never revealed from their main evidence that neither the RCMP nor the FBI asked the CBSA to investigate, ask specific questions or gather evidence Advocacy by government lawyers They had suggested that one of the border officials questioned Meng, Director General Sanjit Dhillon concluded his claim in detail that he developed national security concerns about her after conducting an internet survey. But at the time, Dhillon ‘s actions were not questioned, Majzub said, so there was no need to decide on a philosophy. Majzub, opposed to the defense’s claim that Meng’s electronic devices were seized only to support the FBI, the CBSA had an “independent and legitimate interest” in them as part of its sanctioned investigations. Although the devices were secured in signal blocking bags provided by the RCMP at the request of the FBI, this served CBSA’s purposes to preserve the integrity of their data as well, Majzub said, citing Dhillon’s testimony. The phone codes were handed over to the RCMP violating Meng ‘s privacy, both sides agree, but Majzub said this was done by Border Security Officer Scott Kirkland by mistake, an error Kirkland “candidly” admitted. “He didn’t try to mitigate his error,” and Kirkland’s embarrassing response at a meeting about the investigation a day or two later was consistent with understanding the error, Majzub said. RCMP Constable Gurvinder Dhaliwal, who received the pass codes, took a photograph of Kirkland’s handwritten note and recorded it as a display. This was also inconsistent with the idea of a covert plan to gather evidence for the FBI, which would prevent it from being kept secret. “There is no conspiratorial behavior here,” Majzub told Holmes. Various border officials had “provided a clear, unambiguous and unambiguous explanation for their actions” said a written submission from government lawyers. “They never stopped from their main evidence that neither the RCMP nor the FBI asked the CBSA to investigate, ask specific questions or gather evidence. The officers simply carried forward the CBSA mandate to secure the border, ”they said. The hearing was adjourned until Thursday. Meng, 49, who is Huawei’s chief financial officer and the eldest daughter of the company’s founder Ren Zhengfei, is accused of committing a crime on HSBC by lying about Huawei’s deal in Iran, and as that puts the bank in danger of breaching U.S. sanctions on Tehran. She denies the allegations and has been battling U.S. expansion demand for the past 27 months. The issue of expansion is probably nearing its final stages. Hearings are expected to conclude on May 14, after which Holmes will have to decide whether to allow estrad. However, appeals could last for years, and a final decision on sending Meng to the U.S. will be up to the Canadian justice minister. Meng’s arrest disrupted China-Canada-US relations. Two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, were detained in China days after Meng was arrested, and both underwent brief trials last week. The tests, conducted in secrecy due to national security issues according to Chinese officials, ended in a few hours without mentioning judgments. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other officials have said the men are undergoing treason and “hostile diplomacy” with China, in retaliation for Meng’s arrest. 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