HSBC Banker Knew About Dealings With Iran, Meng’s Defense Argues

Huawei CFO’s 2013 meeting with banker is key part of U.S. case
B.C. court begins weeks of hearings in extradition fight

Meng Wanzhou leaves Supreme Court of British Columbia during a break on March 1. Her lawyers are presenting the case they’ve been building for more than two years, attempting to show there was an abuse of process in her arrest and that she should be released.Photographer: Darryl Dyck/Bloomberg

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By Michael McCullough

March 2, 2021 at 1:14 AM UTC

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Lawyers representing Meng Wanzhou tried to discredit evidence presented by U.S. officials in her extradition hearing, arguing a banker at HSBC Holdings Plc knew that a company doing business with Iran was actually an affiliate of Huawei Technologies Co.

One of Meng’s lawyers, Frank Addario, told the Supreme Court of British Columbia that the Department of Justice presented “misleading and unreliable” evidence when it described a meeting Meng had with an HSBC executive in a Hong Kong tea room in 2013.