Ottawa: Lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou alleged in court documents released Wednesday that she was unlawfully detained and questioned by Canadian border agents in Vancouver last year.
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Border agents detained her under the pretense of an immigration matter and never alerted her to a US warrant for her arrest, questioning her for hours before eventually handing her over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the lawyers said.
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“From the outset of the applicant’s detention,” the RCMP and border agents were acting on behalf of “the FBI for the purpose of obtaining and preserving evidence,” Meng’s lawyers said.
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“The question that remains is to what extent and how the FBI were involved in this scheme.”
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Surveillance video released by the court showed Meng moving through the Vancouver airport customs and immigration area, and being escorted and questioned by border agents.
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The United States wants to put Meng — who was detained on a US warrant in December 2018 during a stopover in Vancouver — on trial for fraud for allegedly violating Iran sanctions and lying about it to US banks — accusations her lawyers dispute.
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Court documents showed that US-based Citigroup and French bank BNP Paribas were among four banks allegedly misled by Meng about Huawei’s business dealings in Iran in breach of US sanctions.
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HSBC Holdings and Standard Chartered had been previously named in the case.
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Meng’s detention provoked a diplomatic row between Canada and China. Her extradition hearing is scheduled for January.
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