huawei Treasurer Meng Wanzhou has asked a Canadian court to admit the testimony of Huawei employees as evidence in an extradition hearing, but the Canadian judge rejected her request.
Meng, 49, the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, has been trapped in Canada for two years now on U.S. charges and an extradition request.
Meng is accused of deceiving HSBC by concealing the relationship between Huawei and its subsidiary Starcom Technology, putting HSBC at risk of violating the U.S. sanctions ban on Iran as the bank continued to approve Huawei’s dollar transactions.
Meng’s legal team believes that the employees’ affidavits prove that HSBC was aware of the relationship between Huawei and Starcom. Starcom Technology trafficked telecommunications equipment to Iran.
According to the lawyer’s team, the evidence supports the prosecution’s claim that it is “manifestly unreliable.
Heather Holmes, deputy chief justice of the B.C. Supreme Court, said late in the evening that the request by Meng’s defence team for written testimony was “relevant to the scope of the trial, but not to the extradition hearing.
Holmes said it was not up to her to rule on the reliability of the extradition hearing.
Huawei confirmed last week that Meng filed an application with a Hong Kong court to obtain bank records, documents she said would facilitate her extradition battle.
Meng had filed a similar legal action in London in February but failed.
Meng’s extradition case in Vancouver is entering its final stage, with a hearing set to resume on the 15th and expected to end in mid-May, when no further appeals will be allowed.
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