Huawei CFO's ‘Complex’ Extradition Request Is Just 33 Pages Long
- Meng Wanzhou’s extradition hearings to start in January
- Canada court’s decision may come as early as October next year
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For months, Canadian defense lawyers for Huawei Technologies Co.’s chief financial officer have been gearing up to battle a U.S. extradition request they’d said would be "exceptionally" complex involving reams of documents. It turns out it’s just 33 pages long.
The Canadian proceedings, in other words, are unlikely to shed much more light on what kind of evidence exactly the U.S. has amassed against Meng Wanzhou, who is also the daughter of Huawei’s billionaire founder Ren Zhengfei and is sought by the U.S. on fraud charges.