Huawei CFO Seeks Order for Canada to Release Secret Documents

Meng Wanzhou seeks additional disclosure from spy agency
Closed hearings begin at federal court later this week

Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., leaves her home to attend Supreme Court of British Columbia for an extradition hearing in Vancouver, Canada, in May.Photographer: Darryl Dyck/Bloomberg

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By Natalie Obiko Pearson

July 27, 2020 at 6:05 PM UTC

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Huawei Technologies Co.’s chief financial officer is seeking a court order that would force the Canadian government to release documents that it is withholding on national security grounds.

Defense lawyers for Meng Wanzhou argued during a federal court hearing in Ottawa Monday that previous disclosures, which showed the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Canada’s spy agency communicated prior to her 2018 arrest, were too heavily redacted.