THE Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)
suffered no risk of loss as a result of alleged deceptions by Shenzhen's
Hauwei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, her lawyer told the Supreme
Court of British Columbia in Vancouver.
This surfaced in the case of Huawei Technologies
two-year battle against extradition to the United States entered a critical
stage, reported Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.
But a Canadian government lawyer representing US interests
said the fact that Huawei was not a " deadbeat" borrower from the
bank was irrelevant to Meng's alleged fraud.
This phase of hearings in the Supreme Court of British Columbia
in Vancouver, lasting until April 1, is scheduled to include extensive
arguments about whether Meng suffered an abuse of process when border agents
questioned her and seized her electronic devices and passwords at the city's
international airport on December 1, 2018, before police arrested her.
Meng's meeting with the HSBC banker took place in a Hong
Kong teahouse in 2013; HSBC is not a US bank; and Meng is not a US citizen. Her
lawyers say the US is trying to assert extraterritorial jurisdiction, in breach
of customary international law.
Source : HKSG / Photo : Warta Ekonomi.
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