Canadian officer who arrested Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou said she might have put up fight, but boss said there were ‘no safety concerns’
- Constable Winston Yep had testified that safety considerations helped sway a decision not to arrest Meng aboard plane after arrival in Vancouver
- But Meng’s lawyers say the delay was part of a plot to gather evidence against her, and they questioned Yep about whether safety concerns existed
The Huawei executive’s legal team resumed their cross-examination of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Constable Winston Yep as they attempt to prove Meng was the victim of a covert operation designed to gather evidence against her at the command of US prosecutors.
They claim her three-hour pre-arrest detention at Vancouver’s airport on December 1, 2018, during which she was questioned by border officers who seized her electronic devices and passwords, violated her Canadian Charter rights and breached the terms of a warrant which said she should be arrested “immediately”.
A US extradition request for her to be sent to New York to face trial for fraud should be thrown out as a result, they say.
The extradition case is being heard before Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver, where Yep on Monday became the first witness in the case.