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Huawei's Meng Wanzhou extradition case | The incident happened in Hong Kong and the United States has jurisdiction? The prosecutor said there was

2021-04-02T08:04:27.236Z


The lawyer representing Meng Wanzhou, vice chairman and chief financial officer of Huawei, said on March 29 that the United States had accused her of fraud, but the incident occurred in China and has nothing to do with the United States. The lawyer also claimed that the extradition process was used to pursue senior officials at Huawei.


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Written by: Xu Yi'an

2021-04-02 15:54

Last update date: 2021-04-02 16:00

The lawyer representing Meng Wanzhou, vice chairman and chief financial officer of Huawei, said on March 29 that the United States had accused her of fraud, but the incident occurred in China and has nothing to do with the United States.

The lawyer also claimed that the use of the extradition process to pursue the actions of senior Huawei personnel that have nothing to do with the United States is an abuse of international law.

But Canadian prosecutors believe that the United States has jurisdiction in this case.

The debate on the jurisdiction of the two parties is expected to continue for several days, after which the extradition process will be suspended for three weeks.

At the request of the US Department of Justice, Canadian police arrested Meng Wanzhou, who was transiting through Vancouver, Canada, on December 1, 2018.

The United States accused Huawei of using a Hong Kong company called Skycom to sell telecommunications equipment to Iran, and accused Meng Wanzhou and Huawei of making false statements to HSBC in order to circumvent the United States’ sanctions against Iran, thereby committing wire transfers and bank fraud. crime.

When talking about the meeting between Meng and HSBC representatives in Hong Kong, Canadian prosecutor Robert Frater said: "The risk of lies in Hong Kong is not related to Hong Kong. They are mainly related to the United States. Risk. Meng Wanzhou’s defense lawyer Gib van Ert called the US move a plain power grab.

The court in British Columbia, Canada, held a hearing on the extradition case of Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on March 31. The picture shows Meng Wanzhou returning to the court before the end of the hearing.

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He told the judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia that what happened in a restaurant in Hong Kong that day was "between a Chinese citizen and a British-Chinese bank. According to international law, this has nothing to do with the United States." He said: " If any law is interfered that day, it will also happen to Chinese territory, which is something China should be worried about."

The prosecutor said that the United States has jurisdiction because the financial transactions processed by HSBC for Huawei are settled in the U.S. dollar system, which means that these transactions technically pass through U.S. territory.

Van Elt believes that the US dollar settlement procedure is not enough to constitute the United States has jurisdiction over this.

He also said that the United States filed a lawsuit against Meng Wanzhou in a New York court and that "detained her in Canada through extradition procedures. These are serious misconduct." He also pointed out that the United States was abusing the extradition procedure.

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