⁍ Huawei’s chief financial officer was arrested at Vancouver International Airport in December 2018 while on a layover bound for Mexico.

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⁍ The United States charged her with bank fraud for allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei’s business dealings in Iran.

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⁍ She has said she is innocent and is fighting the charges from Vancouver.

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⁍ The witness testimony, expected to last five days in total, is focusing on the second of three branches of abuses of process that Meng’s lawyers claim took place.

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– Lawyers for a Chinese tech exec who was arrested in Canada at the request of US authorities are accusing the country’s police force of deliberately delaying her arrest in an effort to suppress her legal rights. Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who is accused of violating US sanctions on Iran, was detained at Vancouver International Airport in December last year at the request of the Canada Border Services Agency. She was then arrested at the request of Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable Winston Yep at the Vancouver airport while on a layover en route to Mexico, reports Reuters. Her lawyers say she was held for three hours without being given a lawyer and that the delay in her arrest was an attempt to suppress her rights under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. “No, that was not intentional,” Yep told a court in Vancouver on Wednesday, adding that he didn’t believe the delay was unreasonable. The CBC reports that Yep was called to the stand by the prosecution on Tuesday, and the defense is expected to wrap up its case by the end of the week. Meng, who is being held under house arrest in Vancouver, faces US charges of bank fraud for allegedly misleading HSBC about its business dealings in Iran. She has said she is innocent and is fighting the charges from Vancouver, where she is under house arrest in her home in Shaughnessy, one of Vancouver’s wealthiest neighborhoods. The witness testimony, expected to last five days in total, is focusing on the second of three branches of abuses of process that Meng’s lawyers say took place.