Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou wants Canada bail conditions eased

Name: How the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou soured China's relations with the US and Canada
Uploaded: 2020-12-24T00:19:09.000Z
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Description: How the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou soured China's relations with the US and Canada

Defence lawyers say they will make a request related to ‘the daytime supervision’ of their client outside her curfew hours

Meng’s bail conditions include curfew in one of her two Vancouver mansions, a GPS monitoring ankle bracelet and daytime supervision by private security guards

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Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou leaves her home to attend a court hearing in Vancouver on December 11. Photo: The Canadian Press via AP

Agence France-Presse

Published: 8:19am, 24 Dec 2020Updated: 5:53am, 25 Dec 2021

An executive for China’s Huawei Technologies Co., facing extradition to the United States on fraud and conspiracy charges, plans to ask Canadian authorities to ease her bail conditions, her lawyers said Wednesday.

Meng Wanzhou’s lawyers revealed their upcoming application during a routine scheduling hearing in Vancouver, where the Huawei chief financial officer is under court-ordered house arrest.

Lawyer Mona Duckett said the request would be related to “the daytime supervision of Ms Meng outside of her curfew hours”.

Prosecutor John Gibb-Carsley said the government would be opposed to relaxing the conditions.

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How the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou soured China's relations with the US and Canada

The businesswoman – whose father is Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei – has been in a two-year battle against extradition over charges Huawei violated US sanctions on Iran.

She is accused of hiding Huawei’s relationship with former subsidiary Skycom in Iran from HSBC bank.