In his first public statement after returning to Canada, Michael Spavor said he was “very happy” to be reunited with his family.

In a statement, Spavor thanked Canadians for the expressions of support he received.

“I am humbled, thank you, as I begin to understand the continued support we have received from Canadians and around the world. I appreciate being outside and the simple things around me,” he said in a statement released via Global Affairs.

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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou admitted that, pursuant to an agreement with federal prosecutors, he misled HSBC Holdings Plc about the telecom company’s business with Iran in violation of US sanctions against the country. Meng will not face further prosecution and could see the charges against him dismissed by December 2022 if he complies with the terms of the agreement.

Pro-Meng supporters gathered outside the court in Vancouver on Friday to shout “Not Guilty!” After the trial, Meng gave his colleagues a big hug as he left the courtroom to applause. Someone lifted him off his feet. He thanked his supporters, the Chinese consul, and the Canadian people.

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The daughter of company founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, is accused of defrauding HSBC Bank by falsely misrepresenting links between Huawei and Skycom, a subsidiary that sold telecoms equipment to Iran, putting the bank at risk of violating US sanctions against Tehran, as it continued to clear US dollar transactions for Huawei.

Supreme Court of British Columbia Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes said she will on October 21 likely set a date to deliver her ruling.

If transferred to the United States for trial and subsequently convicted, Meng could face more than 30 years in a US prison.

Her arrest in December 2018 during a stopover in Vancouver caused a deep diplomatic rift between Ottawa and Beijing, which has accused Washington of trying to crush its international tech giant Huawei.

Days later China detained two Canadians, businessman Michael Spavor and former diplomat Michael Kovrig.

Both were tried in March for espionage — charges that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said were “trumped up.” Last week Spavor was sentenced to 11 years in prison as the final arguments in Meng’s case got underway.

Meng’s extradition hearing in the last week heard her lawyers reject the US allegations against her, accuse Canadian and US officials of abuse of process and call for her release.

Canadian government lawyers representing US interests countered that there is sufficient evidence to commit Meng for extradition.

A final decision rests with Canada’s attorney general.

source: dailymail.co.uk

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US authorities’ attempts to mislead in the extradition case of Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou “must be denounced” by halting the entire process, thus setting her free, her lawyer said, as the final scheduled hearings in the marathon case began in a Canadian court on Wednesday.

Meng’s lawyer Mona Duckett said her client’s mistreatment by the US – namely, the filing of a misleading record of the fraud case against her – could only be answered by staying the proceedings.

“The only remedy we say lies in a stay … to meaningfully denounce the misleading conduct,” Duckett told Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

It is a process that began almost 1,000 days ago, when Meng’s 2018 arrest at Vancouver’s airport triggered a crisis in Beijing’s relations with Ottawa and Washington.

The next stage, the committal hearings, are scheduled to begin on August 11, and could continue until August 20. After that, Holmes will consider her judgment, which is likely to be announced at a later date.

Meng, who is Huawei’s chief financial officer and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, is accused of defrauding the bank HSBC by lying about Huawei’s business activities in Iran, putting the bank at risk of breaching US sanctions on Tehran.

But Duckett said the ROC was inaccurate, falsely depicting what HSBC executives knew about Huawei’s Iran business. She focused on its original claim that only junior HSBC staff knew of this business; but when documents showed that senior staff knew too, the ROC was amended to suggest these were not senior enough, or not the appropriate staff, she said.

The court would not have known the “depths of the deception” by the US, except for an investigation by Meng herself, Duckett said.

That was a reference to Meng’s pursuit of a trove of HSBC documents that she obtained as a result of a Hong Kong lawsuit against the bank. The material was previously rejected by Holmes as evidence in the committal hearings, but serves to inform the third-branch arguments.

The US behaviour was “particularly egregious”, said Duckett, because it was designed “to trick the court to make the case seem stronger … those acts were done at a time, we say, that the requesting state knew the true facts”.

Source: Ian Young

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They said that extraditing Meng from Canada would undermine China’s sovereignty in international law.

Defense attorney Gib van Ert, referring to allegations that Meng lied to the HSBC bank in a 2013 presentation about the activities of a Huawei subsidiary in Iran – the basis for the US prosecution and extradition request – said the meeting was held in China and should not concern the United. States or Canada.

“If any law was broken that day, this is the concern of China where things happened,” van Ert, a new member of Meng’s legal team, told a Canadian court.

“What happened in a Hong Kong restaurant between a Chinese citizen and an Anglo-Chinese bank on August 22, 2013 – according to international law – does not concern the United States.”

The newest line of attack in Meng’s bid to avoid extradition to the United States came just a week after Ottawa and Washington imposed economic sanctions on top Chinese government officials and escalated the already rising international tensions.

The US alleges that Meng misled HSBC by distancing Huawei Technologies from its subsidiary Skycom regarding its activities in Iran in violation of US sanctions.

Meng and Huawei deny any crime.

Van Ert also said that Meng was suffering from the “personal and real” consequences of “being stranded in a foreign country”, and the Canadian judge warned that if he sent Meng to the United States, it would drive Canada into violations of American international law.

“For Ms. Meng, the consequences of this violation are personal and real,” said Van Ert. “He spent two years of his life stranded in a foreign country far from his home, friends and ordinary life.

“The only thing that is done is a fairly blatant violation of the fundamental principles of international law; if Canada helps to extradite Ms. Meng to the United States, she will violate international law.”

Since his arrest in December 2018, Meng has been under surveillance at his $ 11 million Vancouver mansion and receives a nightly curfew.

Canada’s attorney general responded to allegations of violations of international law by filing a lawsuit.

“Questions about the jurisdiction of a requesting state are primarily for foreign state courts,” Canadian lawyers wrote in the courts of February 24th. “The applicant cannot prove that there is abuse.”

The Chinese foreign ministry itself retaliated against Canadian officials, attacking Canada’s sanctions.

“The Chinese government is committed to protecting its national sovereignty, security and development interests,” a Chinese spokesperson said on March 22.

Earlier this month, China held hearings for two Canadians imprisoned days after Meng’s arrest, which plunged diplomatic relations into crisis.

source: dailymail

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