Canadian officer says US never asked for Meng Wanzhou’s electronic passwords – but he took them ‘without thinking’

• Constable Gurvinder Dhaliwal of the RCMP says the border agency that provided the passcodes tried to get them back – but they had been filed with the courts
• Meng’s lawyers have depicted the illegal handover of the passcodes as part of a covert operation to gather evidence against her, orchestrated by the FBI