A lawyer for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has told her extradition hearing that Canada’s attorney general is turning fraud law “on its head.”
Mark Sandler argued today that government lawyers have failed to present evidence linking Meng’s actions to any violation of U-S sanctions by international bank H-S-B-C or to subsequent losses.
Lawyers for Canada’s attorney general, who represent the United States in the case, argued last week that Meng’s alleged lies during a presentation in 2013 would clearly constitute fraud in Canada.
But Sandler says that without proof of “causation” or any evidence that H-S-B-C faced civil or criminal consequences for a sanctions breach, the case wouldn’t meet the threshold for fraud and Meng should be released.
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