Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou claim the United States is basing its bid to extradite the Huawei executive to New York on a theory of fraud that's "unprecedented in Canadian law." Her lawyers claim the U.S. has not met the bar for extradition. "HSBC simply faced no meaningful risk of sanctions violations that were causally linked in any manner to Ms. Meng's representations. 'Deceitful' representations put bank at riskLawyers for Canada's attorney general have also filed the submissions they plan to make in favour of Meng's extradition. In addition to arguments on the extradition request, Meng's lawyers will also try to have the case tossed because of alleged abuse of process when the proceedings recommence.

Source: CBC News May 05, 2021 20:05 UTC