So Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou is an Apple fan — is that a crime?
Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive facing charges involving bank and wire fraud and violating United States sanctions against Iran, is a big fan of Apple products, it would appear.
A report last Friday said that Meng, chief financial officer of the Chinese telecommunication company Huawei, was carrying a number of devices made by one of her firm’s biggest rivals when she was arrested in Canada in December.
The devices included an iPhone 7 Plus, MacBook Air and an iPad Pro, in addition to a Huawei Mate 20 RS phone featuring a Porsche design, Bloomberg reported, citing a court order it saw.
Huawei and Apple are fierce competitors, with Huawei supplanting Apple as the second-biggest smartphone maker in the world last year. It was the first time since 2010 that Apple was not ranked first or second.
Meng’s lawyers had applied to secure a copy of the data stored on the devices and then seal them, and Canada’s crown prosecution approved the request, Bloomberg said.
The disclosure is potentially embarrassing for Huawei, which earlier this year punished two employees who were found to be responsible for a tweet sent from the company’s account by an iPhone, reportedly demoting them and cutting their pay by 5,000 yuan (about US$730).
Meng faces 13 charges of bank and wire fraud, violating US sanctions against Iran and obstructing justice.
She has denied the charges and is fighting extradition to the US.
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- Meng, who denies 13 charges, including bank and wire fraud and violating US sanctions against Iran, is fighting extradition to the US