Heavyweight: Canadian Judge Realizes US and HSBC Have Trouble Allowing Meng Wanzhou to Present Evidence-Finance News

Original title: Heavyweight – Canadian judge realized US and HSBC were in trouble and allowed Meng Wanzhou to present evidence!

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According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), on October 29 local time, Heather Holmes, a judge of the Superior Court of British Columbia, Canada, issued a ruling that allowed Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou to continue to provide new information. Evidence to prove that the US extradition request misled the Canadian side and abused the procedure.

This means that the judge who tried Meng Wanzhou’s case eventually realized that the central issue of the case was the alleged “fraud” charges brought by the United States against Meng. Many Western media, including CBC, believe that this is a stage win for Meng Wanzhou.

Previously, despite the large amount of evidence exposed in the field of public opinion showing that the US Department of Justice fraud allegations against Meng Wanzhou had serious loopholes and even deliberate framing, the focus of the court was more on the question of extradition from Canada. Regarding many procedural issues for Zhou, the “war situation” between the prosecution and the defense is relatively stagnant in this regard.

On the 29th, Heather Holmes, the trial judge in the Meng Wanzhou case, ruled that Ms. Meng’s legal team claimed that the United States had abused the process and misled the Canadian authorities about Meng Wanzhou’s extradition. There was a “real possibility”. (Air of reality), if Meng Wanzhou can present new evidence to prove this, the lawsuit against him may be terminated.

According to CBC and other outlets, Meng Wanzhou’s lawyer claimed that the US government deliberately omitted some key elements of the case, and these elements can prove that Meng Wanzhou did not carry out the “fraud” alleged by the United States. Thus, this Holmes ruling means that at the February trial next year, Meng Wanzhou can provide new evidence on this basis to show that the United States and Canada have abused litigation procedures, ending the lawsuit.

In detail, the United States Department of Justice had previously indicted Meng Wanzhou in a document given to HSBC.PptThe document conceals the trade partnership between Huawei and Hong Kong Skycom Technology Co., Ltd. (Skycom) in Iran, putting HSBC at risk of violating US sanctions against Iran, constituting “fraud.” In other words, the only “key evidence” for the United States to make this claim is solely a PPT provided by HSBC.

This PPT was used by Meng Wanzhou in a speech to an HSBC executive on August 22, 2013, when presenting the legal business cooperation between Huawei and Skycom in Iran. However, a large amount of information released by the media showed that HSBC was busy with exonerations in other cases at the time, and had already begun to actively cooperate with the political needs of the US government to crack down on Huawei to “configure” Huawei. The British bank first requested the English version of the PPT and then delivered the PPT to the US In accordance with instructions from the US government, the US then deliberately deleted two of the pages that could prove the innocence of Meng Wanzhou and framed it.

Not only that, when the US indicted Meng Wanzhou, it also claimed that only HSBC’s “junior” employees were aware of the relationship between Huawei and Skycom, and HSBC executives were unaware and could only rely on it. PPT to judge business compliance. risk. However, lawyer Meng Wanzhou refuted that this statement was “unbelievable”, and much evidence could prove that it was a “gross misrepresentation”. HSBC’s top management was very clear about Huawei’s situation in Iran.

Therefore, in this ruling, Judge Heather Holmes said that she allowed Meng Wanzhou’s team to provide evidence in this regard, showing that the United States had concealed two pages of PPT and allowing Meng Wanzhou’s attorney to present information about the management of HSBC. New evidence to show that HSBC executives are aware of the relationship between Huawei and Skycom.

Holmes noted in the ruling that if the new evidence presented by Meng Wanzhou can confirm any of these arguments, while it may not change the nature of the case, it may end the case.

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