China News Agency, Toronto, June 15 (Reporter Yu Ruidong) The High Court of British Columbia, Canada (also translated into British Columbia), once again held a hearing in Vancouver on June 15 on the extradition case of Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver. Meng Wanzhou's defense team believes that the summary of evidence provided to the Canadian court by the US who requested extradition is "seriously inaccurate and misleading."

　　This hearing is a case management hearing, which aims to discuss issues such as procedures. Due to the epidemic prevention needs of the court, Meng Wanzhou and the lawyers of both the prosecution and the defense attended the hearing by telephone.

Data Figure: Meng Wanzhou, vice chairman and chief financial officer of Huawei, walked out of her residence in Vancouver, Canada. China News Service reporter Yu Ruidong

　　The defense stated in a memorandum submitted to the court that the summary of the evidence of the United States was seriously inaccurate and based on deliberate and/or rash statement of facts and major omissions, thus constituting a serious abuse of the degree of extradition.

　　The defense believes that the US erroneously claimed that only the lower-level employees of HSBC in Hong Kong knew the nature of the relationship between Huawei and Skycom, "but the evidence will show that any review of HSBC and Starcom without the review of HSBC executives Or the decisions made by Huawei’s relationship are incredible."

　　In this case, the US accused Starcom of conducting business on behalf of Huawei and Iran, thereby violating sanctions against Iran.

　　Regarding the US accusation that Meng Wanzhou made a "false" presentation to HSBC in 2013, which led HSBC to provide US$900 million in credit to Huawei, the defense rebutted in the memo that the actual situation is that HSBC and eight other banks provide a total of A credit line of USD 1.6 billion, of which HSBC contributed USD 80 million. And Huawei has never used the funds.

　　The defense also believes that another misleading point is that the US prosecution case record does not indicate that HSBC has the ability to process some transactions without touching the US banking system. The defense also pointed out that HSBC had been fined $1.9 billion for other “misconduct” in violation of Iran’s sanctions. The bank and the United States Department of Justice signed an extension of the prosecution agreement.

　　Meng Wanzhou’s defense team also believes that the Canadian border law enforcement department conducted an illegal search and interrogation of Meng Wanzhou at the Vancouver International Airport when he was detained at the request of the FBI; this extradition case is a political event. The defense once again hoped that the court would suspend the extradition case.

　　The High Court of British Columbia ruled on the so-called "dual crime" of the Meng Wanzhou incident on May 27, arguing that the US extradition request against Meng met the "dual crime" principle.

　　The Canadian media recently revealed that a memorandum issued by the Canadian Federal Intelligence Agency on December 1, 2018 showed that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation informed the Canadian side about the plan to arrest Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver International Airport that day. The memorandum also pointed out that the FBI did not come forward to participate in the arrest operation so as not to think that the US had exerted influence.

　　The court will reopen on June 23 to discuss the timing of the subsequent hearing of the Meng case. (Finish)