EFE.- The lawyers of Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, on Monday asked a Canadian court to postpone the cause of his extradition to the United States for three months in order to examine a series of documents released last week in Hong Kong.
Meng’s lawyers, whose extradition is requested by the United States, believe that the HSBC banking documents published They will show last week that Washington provided Canada with biased information about the case against Huawei’s chief financial officer and the Chinese telecommunications company.
Meng, 49, daughter of the founder of Huawei, was arrested on December 1, 2018 at Vancouver Airport while stopping in the Canadian city bound for Mexico.
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Canadian police detained Meng at the request of the United States Department of Justice, which accuses HSBC of bank fraud to escape Washington sanctions imposed on Iran.
The director of Meng’s legal team, attorney Richard Peck, argued this Monday before Judge Heather Holmes, who must determine whether the Chinese citizen is extradited to the United States, that the postponement of the case to August 3 “is needed to make sure” that the deal is fair.
Holmes will rule this Wednesday on the request of Meng’s lawyers, who should have started the final round of arguments next week to get Canadian courts to dismiss the extradition request.
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Last week, Meng’s lawyers arrived to an agreement with the HSBC bank in Hong Kong to make public a series of documents related to the case. His defense also asked courts in the UK and US to order the release of other documents.
Since the start of the case, lawyers have pointed out that US authorities have submitted false information to Canada to justify the case against Huawei’s CFO.
US says Meng and Huawei lied to a senior HSBC executive in Hong Kong on the nature of the company’s relationship Chinese telecommunications with its subsidiary Skycom, which is accused of violating the sanctions imposed against Iran.
Meng’s arrest and the extradition process have sparked a serious diplomatic crisis between Canada and China, a country that accuses Ottawa of violating the human rights of its citizen.
Immediately after Meng’s arrest in Vancouver, China detained two Canadian citizens, Michael Kovrig, a diplomat on leave working for a think tank in China, and Michael Spavor, a businessman with close ties to North Korea, and accused them of espionage.
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The two men were tried on March 19 and 22 behind closed doors and without the presence of Canadian consular officials.
It is not known whether the two Canadian citizens were convicted in Chinese courts.
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