A lawyer for Canada's attorney general pleaded Tuesday with the judge overseeing Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearing not to let the Huawei executive's defence team turn the proceedings into a trial. Robert Frater accused Meng's lawyers of using a pair of applications related to the underlying record of the case as a means to offer the 48-year-old a defence to charges of fraud and conspiracy. Frater's submissions followed a day and a half of arguments in which Meng's lawyers accused the U.S. of trying to mislead the court by cherry-picking evidence and omitting facts in order to justify Meng's extradition. Meng's lawyers argued on Monday the official record of the case drawn up by U.S. authorities omitted two slides from the presentation which proved Meng had not misled HSBC. 'Garden-variety' defencesMeng's lawyers want Holmes to consider the alleged misrepresentations as a potential abuse of process worthy of staying the proceedings.

Source: CBC News September 29, 2020 20:56 UTC