A Canadian court rejected HUAWEI's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou's demands on rejection of US extradition requests.She faces fraud in the United States that this political color case has exacerbated the tension between Washington and Beijing.
Meng Wanzhou was the daughter of Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, China Telecom Equipment Manufacturing Group. In December 2018, she was arrested when she took a plane at Vancouver Airport, and was later placed under house arrest at Vancouver's house.Canada was detained at the request of the United States at the time.The United States accused her of having a fraudulent behavior related to violating the US sanctions regulations on Iran, and was seeking to extradite her to the United States.
The United States accused her of misleading the relationship between HSBC (HSBC), headquarters headquarters in the UK in the relationship between Huawei and a subsidiary of Huawei in Huawei in 2013, with fraud.HSBC said that considering the bank's work in the US dollar settlement transaction, the other party's false statement put it in the risk of violating the US sanctions against the United States.
The outside world believes that the case is related to the Trump administration's strive to prevent Huawei from dominating the global 5G mobile network.The Trump administration claims that the Chinese company can use its equipment to carry out spy activities on the West.
Meng Wanzhou's detention in December 2018 also seriously damaged China -Canada relations.The Chinese government took two Canadians mdash; mdash; Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig; mdash; mdash; entered prison.Many Canadians said that this was revenge on detention of Meng Wanzhou.
Meng Wanzhou's defense lawyer tried to persuade the judge to reject the case. They said that related allegations did not meet the principles of dual crime mdash; MDASH; dual crimes refer to the United States' allegations of her allegations in Canada.Her lawyer had previously stated that the United States' allegations against her were completely sanctions, not fraud, and because Canada did not impose sanctions on Iran at the time, she did not violate Canadian laws.
According to the terms of the US -Canada extradition treaty, the charged crimes must be criminal in both countries.
However, the prosecutor claims that the essence of the US government's case in the case of Meng Wanzhou is fraud, not sanctions.Prosecutor's lawyer Robert Bull; Robert Frater said in a January hearing: Lying to banks in order to obtain bank services, which brings economic damage risks. This is fraud.
Vice Chief Justice, Heather Holmes, rejected Meng Wanzhou's request on Wednesday, on the grounds that the problem of dual crimes was satisfied, and the accusation depends on the influence of US sanctions.
My conclusion is that these effects may play a certain role in determining whether the dual crime is established, and she wrote in the judgment.
Regarding the defense on the grounds that Canada did not impose sanctions on Iran, it claimed that Meng Wanzhou's behavior did not constitute a crime. Judge Holmes ruled that foreign crimes did not have to have a completely corresponding crime in Canada.
The important thing is lsquo; the essence of crime rsquo; she ruled.
Judge Homs concluded that the influence of US sanctions may properly play a role in the analysis of dual crime as part of the background of reviewing the behavior involved.
Translator/He Li
