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Huawei CFO Sabrina Meng Wanzhou enjoys Vancouver home comforts and Domino’s pizza on bail

  • Sabrina Meng Wanzhou welcomed three visitors who arrived in a car with diplomatic plates
  • She offered pizza to reporters outside her Vancouver home

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Huawei chief financial officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou arrives at a parole office with a security guard in Vancouver after being released on bail. Photo: AP
Agence France-Presse

Accused of sanctions busting and forced to abide by a curfew and wear an ankle bracelet as she awaits possible extradition to the United States, China’s “Princess of Huawei” could be said to have fallen spectacularly from grace.

But Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, heiress to her billionaire father’s global tech conglomerate, is managing to surround herself with a few home comforts.

Huawei’s chief financial officer was arrested on December 1 on a US warrant for alleged sanctions-breaking dealings with Iran, while changing planes in Vancouver.

She faces more than 30 years in jail if convicted, but was freed on C$10 million bail (US$7.5 million) on Tuesday night pending the outcome of an extradition hearing, which could take months, or even years, if appeals are made in the case.

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The following morning, Meng was seen answering the front door of her Vancouver house to three visitors bringing flowers who arrived in a sedan with diplomatic plates.

A driver waits next to a Mercedes with consular plates outside the residence of Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou. Photo: AFP
A driver waits next to a Mercedes with consular plates outside the residence of Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou. Photo: AFP
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The South China Morning Post approached one of the men for an interview at Meng’s bail hearing on Friday, but he refused to comment and walked away before he could be asked to identify himself.

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