Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has accused the United States of providing a “grossly inaccurate and misleading” summary of evidence to the Canadian court hearing her extradition case.
She argued that the case should be thrown out as a result.
Meng’s lawyers want the extradition case thrown out because of the alleged abuse of process.
They said the U.S. misled British Columbia’s Supreme Court about a PowerPoint presentation Meng gave to a HSBC banker, forming the basis of the U.S. fraud case.
The 2013 presentation forms the basis of the U.S. claims that Meng defrauded HSBC by lying about Huawei’s business in Iran, allegedly in breach of U.S. sanctions, and that she should be sent to New York to face trial.
“Ms Meng will submit that the Requesting State’s summary of evidence … is grossly inaccurate and based on deliberate and/or reckless misstatements of fact and material omissions, thereby constituting a serious abuse of the extradition process that should disentitle the Requesting State to proceed,” her lawyers said in a memo, released on Monday by the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Meng was arrested by Canadian police, acting on a U.S. request, at Vancouver’s airport on December 1, 2018, throwing China’s relations with Canada and the U.S. into turmoil.
