Canadian judge weighing whether to extradite Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou to United States
CNNVancouver CNN Business — A Canadian federal judge declined to make an immediate ruling on whether Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s extradition process should move forward, after a four-day hearing on the case in a Vancouver court wrapped up Thursday. The United States has requested Meng’s extradition from Canada so she can stand trial on charges of bank fraud and sanctions violations. This week’s hearing in Vancouver covered a crucial element of the extradition process called “double criminality” — in order to extradite someone from Canada, the conduct they will be tried for in the destination country must also be a crime under Canadian law. The United States has alleged that Meng lied to bank HSBC about Huawei’s relationship with its Iran-based affiliate Skycom in order to receive funding that violated US economic sanctions against Iran.