With the United States trapped Meng Wanzhou, the role of the HSBC Bank has clearly surfaced.
On July 24, local time, the British Columbia High Court applied for the team of lawyer Meng Wanzhou in Canada, and disclosed the evidence materials in the next stage of trial.
These evidence disclosed by the lawyer team of Meng Wanzhou directly refers to the major unreal statement of the United States MDASH; mdash; the so -called HSBC because Meng Wanzhou concealed the relationship between Huawei and Skycom, which led to the bank's risk of violations of the United States on Iranian sanctions.Said, it is simply nonsense.
Since 2010, Huawei and HSBC have been communicating business through email, and the settlement business between Huawei and Skycom has also been among them.The latest evidence also shows that inside HSBC, Skycom is marked by Huawei Group.
According to the record of cases provided by the United States, from 2010 to 2014, HSBC provided Huawei with Iranian financial services, with a total amount of business exchanges of about 100 million US dollars.As a century -old bank with sufficient compliance risk assessment capabilities, HSBC clarifying the relevant risks in advance when HSBC undertakes this part of the Iranian business is the minimum responsibility for customers.
It is surprising that according to people familiar with the matter, after HSBC had already launched a related business, she suddenly took the initiative to meet the founder of Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei Meng Wanzhou in 2013.
During the meeting on August 22, 2013, Meng Wanzhou used the PPT to the then HSBC Asia Pacific global bank business deputy head of the global bank business of HSBC; Alan Thomas introduced Huawei.In Iran's customers, products, compliance requirements, compliance systems, etc., I also briefly introduced the relationship between Huawei and Skycom, which HSBC known.
You know, Meng Wanzhou's position at the company level is much higher than Thomas. This time, the PPT introduction can be completed by Huawei employees corresponding to Thomas, but HSBC is named Meng Wanzhou to Hong Kong.Moreover, there was no written trace this time, the place was in a steakhouse in Hong Kong.For such an important issue, HSBC did not choose the company's conference room.
Afterwards, HSBC asked Meng Wanzhou for this English version of the PPT, which was the only key evidence that the United States was used to accuse Meng Wanzhou's false statement on HSBC in 2016.
It should be noted that the year before HSBC met Meng Wanzhou, that is, 2012, HSBC paid a series of illegal acts (including the washing and funding international terrorist behavior for Mexican drugs).A fine of $ 1.92 billion and signed a five -year suspension of prosecution agreement (DPA) with the department.
After the book is not a book mdash; MDASH; HSBC transferred the PPT requested from Meng Wanzhou to the United States, the bank was forgiven, and he was sued by the U.S. government because of his previous spots.
From this point of view, in this world -renowned extradition drama, HSBC is hard to escape to cooperate with the United States to carefully do it, put together the materials to frame Meng Wanzhou, and change the suspicion of his own sin.
Data map: On May 27, Meng Wanzhou attended the trial from CTVNEWS
These evidences are all there, this is not dependent
On July 24th, the Gao Court of British Columbia, Canada (hereinafter referred to as the Canadian Court) disclosed the evidence materials submitted by the lawyer team of Meng Wanzhou recently.
Previously, on June 15, the lawyer team of Meng Wanzhou submitted a memorandum of case management to the Canada Court that the U.S. Department of Justice accused Meng Wanzhou's only key evidence provided by HSBC, but the United States' summary of this evidence leaked major information and even intentionally had intentionally existed intentionallyMisled by misleading.
The United States' allegations on Meng Wanzhou mainly concentrated on the false statement to HSBC on August 22, 2013. It did not disclose the relationship between Huawei and Skycom, which caused HSBC to face HSBC.The risk of civil and criminal fines.
However, from the public PPT file, Meng Wanzhou truthfully stated the business of Huawei in Iran at the time.PPT introduced a lot of space to introduce Huawei and Skycom's customers, products, compliance requirements, and compliance systems in Iran.Among them, it also emphasized that after the US President Barack Obama signed the Iranian bill on July 1, 2010, Huawei attached great importance to not only strictly observed itself, but also required partners to be compliant.
In fact, the theme of Meng Wanzhou's meeting with the HSBC executives this time was Huawei's business in Iran, but she still briefly introduced the relationship between Huawei and Skycom in PPT.Reasons that I don't know.
Evidence shows that within HSBC, Skycom is marked by white paper and black. It is affiliated with Huawei Group. From 2010, multi -sealing business can prove that HSBC knows the relationship between Huawei and Skycom.
In addition, Huawei has sent Skycom's financial report to HSBC, and the financial report has a clear description of the Skycom business.Employees at different regions, different businesses, and different levels of HSBC are directly communicating with Huawei's bank business.
What's more important is that a senior vice president of HSBC also directly changed to the Skycom account right signinger and sent an email to Huawei employees.
These evidences are all there, which cannot be lost.As Ren Zhengfei said last year.
Do you know the high level at the grassroots level?Violation of common sense
In order to sit in HSBC, I did not know about Huawei's business. The United States said in a record of the extradition case submitted to Canada that only HSBC's junior employees knew the relationship between Huawei and Skycom, but these primary employees did not pass the relevant information to HSBC's senior management of HSBC.As a result, the latter can only rely on the risk of compliance with PPT information provided by Meng Wanzhou.
Not to mention how HSBC clearly defines junior employees and senior managers. The above statement of the United States is to confirm that HSBC has poor management problems.
An expert with a 25 -year financial institution experience said that Huawei, as the world's largest communication equipment manufacturer and Forbes Global 500 companies.cooperate.Such a scale and duration, it is difficult to imagine that the customer manager of Huawei is a low -level employee who does not understand the report.Therefore, whether it is based on the bank's approval process, the sensitive country's business, or the customer business involved in multiple angles, HSBC's senior management should fully understand the business situation of Huawei and Skycom in Iran.
Another witness stated that the multinational banks, including HSBC, will not rely on customer statements when reporting suspicious matters to the risk committee, and should also examine and analyze the specific relationship between Huawei and all business departments of HSBC.Moreover, the HSBC Bank was trapped in the suspension of the prosecution agreement signed with the United States. In this regard, the topic should be in the state of ten years of fear of well rope.
The so -called primary employees who dumped the pot insisted that senior managers did not know the relationship between Huawei and Skycom, and the nature of Huawei and Skycom's business in Iran can prove that HSBC's internal management was extremely chaotic and did not seriously fulfill the suspension of prosecution agreement.
A financial practitioner said to the Observer Network that understanding the customer's background in an all -round way is the most basic compliance requirement for financial institutions. The so -called grassroots know that the high -level level does not know that it is obviously common sense.
Do you want to do it?
The United States pointed out in a record of extradition case that HSBC once violated the rules as SkycM's involved in Iran has provided over 100 million US dollars liquidation, which violates the US financial sanctions on Iran.
Generally speaking, cross -border US dollar payment is usually based on the US domestic system. It is completed through an agency bank in the United States, but a large part of the US dollar payment and settlement are completed overseas.For entities outside the United States, there are many ways to achieve US dollar payment and settlement, including the Hong Kong US dollar liquidation office automatic transfer (Chats) system.Based on this system, Asian companies such as Huawei and Skycom can save interaction with the US agency bank and directly complete the US dollar settlement, which does not violate the relevant US sanctions.
A newly retired from a bank said that the specific path for cross -border payment and settlement of US dollar is determined by the payment bank; as a bank customer, it usually only cares about the timelyness and cost of payment.Extremely low.Moreover, if the bank thinks that related payment may violate the sanctions law, it can be frozen or refused to pay.
In short, whether the transaction is liquidated in the United States, responsibility is in financial institutions.If HSBC does have illegal operations in settlement, it should also be responsible for HSBC itself, not bank customers.
As mentioned earlier, many evidences can prove that HSBC knew from the beginning that Huawei and Skycom's business in Iran.HSBC still adopted illegal operations for his own and customers to avoid risks, and when he faced the heavy penalties such as confiscated financial licenses and lost bank identity by the United States, he moved the crooked brain of customers.
As an old -fashioned multinational bank, HSBC's level involving the above -mentioned sensitive business is so uncomfortable.
If a kind of angle is changed, MDASH; MDASH; HSBC is not a problem in business capabilities, that is to know the law and violate the law, passing the US dollar in the United States in one fell swoop, and intentionally dragging customers into the illegal trap.
HSBC, the full English name The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Chinese is literally translated as Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Co., Ltd.Since its establishment in Hong Kong more than 150 years ago, HSBC has been the largest arbitrage between China and the West.To this day, HSBC's business in China has stabilized more than 80%of its total profit.
The former Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Liang Zhenying recently bluntly stated on social media that HSBC's profits are mainly from China.thing.
