No one had a “fairer hearing” than Meng Wanzhou, a lawyer for the Canadian attorney general told the court while arguing against a stay of proceedings, adding that no misconduct was involved in the Huawei executive’s extradition case. Robert Frater told the British Columbia Supreme Court on Tuesday that no misconduct from either the United States or the Canadian border officials had occurred when they were handling the case. Meng, the chief financial officer for China’s telecom giant Huawei Technologies, and daughter of the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, was arrested by the Canadian police on a U.S. warrant in December 2018, at the Vancouver airport while en route to Mexico. Meng is wanted in the United States on charges of bank fraud, as she allegedly lied to multiple financial institutions about Huawei’s business dealings with Iran, leading them to violate U.S. sanctions against the Middle East country. Meng and Huawei …
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