Lawyers for Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei will appear in a New York court on Monday (April 26) to defend the company. The company is accused of improperly helping its chief financial officer resist extradition from Canada to the United States.
U.S. prosecutors say Huawei wrongly shared material disclosed by the government in the criminal case against its CEO Meng Wanzhou. Meng has also been charged but is considered a fugitive.
A hearing is set for Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn for Huawei and Meng on charges of bank fraud and other crimes in a case that has strained relations between the U.S., the Chinese (Communist) state and Canada. Meng was arrested in Vancouver in December 2018.
In an April 14 letter requesting a hearing, U.S. prosecutors said Huawei’s legal counsel “used government discovery in this case without permission to help keep Meng from being extradited from Canada.”
Huawei denies that it provided the information in violation of any court order.
Huawei’s lawyers wrote in an April 21 filing that there is nothing “to prohibit the defendants from stating that the evidence provided in the discovery contradicts the government’s allegations.
The suit is one in a battle the U.S. has waged against Huawei. The U.S. has warned that Huawei could spy on customers for Beijing. The company is also on a U.S. trade blacklist, and the United States has moved to cut off its global chip supply.
Huawei has pleaded not guilty in the case, and Meng has said she is innocent.
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