Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Chief Financial Officer of Meng Wanzhou will appear in court in Canada on Monday when her case over U.S. expansion goes into the final stage of arguments that led to a final hearing in the United States. May.
Meng, 49, was arrested in December 2018 at Vancouver International Airport on a U.S. warrant for allegedly defrauding HBSC about Huawei’s deal in Iran and causing the bank to breach control US bonds.
She has since fought the case from being detained under a house in Vancouver and has pleaded not guilty.
After two years of legal proceedings, Meng’s case is now entering its final field leading to a decision by Chief Justice Heather Holmes in the British Columbia High Court on whether she should is awaiting approval from a federal justice minister.
Beginning Monday, the court will hear arguments over allegations that Canadian and U.S. authorities made legal errors during Meng’s initial interrogation and arrest, which her attorneys say should be dismissed. out invalid.
Witness testimony on these allegations ended in December 2020.
Meng’s team has previously argued that the extension should be rejected because of the alleged political intervention by then-US President Donald Trump in her case.
Trump told Reuters in December 2018 that he would intervene in the case if it served national security interests or helped close a trade deal with China.
Canadian prosecutors representing the federal government claim that due process was followed. They have now argued that Trump is no longer president his views are debated, and that it is a politician, not a judge, who is influencing their influence.
The case has caused a freeze in relations between Ottawa and Beijing. Shortly after Meng was arrested, China arrested two Canadians – Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig – on treason charges, which Canada has called retaliation.
On Thursday, China Times Global reported that the Spavor and Kovrig lawsuit would take place “soon,” an anonymous source said. The Global Times is published by the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the ruling Communist Party of China.
Hearings are expected to end in May, but the potential for appeals from both sides means the case could drag on for years.
(Reporting by Moira Warburton in Vancouver; Editing by Denny Thomas and Sonya Hepinstall)