A Canadian border officer who questioned Meng Wanzhou in the hours before her arrest at Vancouver’s airport has testified that he knew the case would end up in court over the way she was handled, as the judge hearing the case handed down a separate ruling granting the Huawei executive a small victory in her fight against extradition to the United States.
Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes of the Supreme Court of British Columbia agreed to admit new evidence presented by Meng, including portions of a crucial PowerPoint presentation she made to an HSBC executive, although other evidence was excluded.
In her written ruling, the judge also threw out an application by the Canadian attorney general to dismiss one of Meng’s arguments, that the record of the case (ROC) provided by the US is misleading and this constituted an abuse of process. The attorney general’s lawyers, representing US interests in the case, had opposed the new evidence, which was tendered to support the abuse-of-process argument.
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