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2021.8.17 报道 孟晚舟律师总结陈词
原文:Faulty evidence and false conclusions show why Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou should not be extradited to the United States to face a charge of fraud, her legal team told a B.C. court on Tuesday.
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Mr. Gottardi cited several examples of what he called “manifestly unreliable” evidence: First, that Ms. Meng, far from denying that Skycom was controlled by Huawei, said the opposite – that Skycom was “controllable” by Huawei. Second, Huawei’s control of Skycom did not give rise to any risk of sanctions violations on the part of HSBC, according to a U.S. expert on sanctions law whose evidence the judge has admitted into the case record.
Third, that the terms of a 2012 deferred prosecution agreement that HSBC had entered into in the U.S. (in relation to sanctions violations and weak protections against money laundering) provided for liability only if the bank knowingly violated the U.S. sanctions. Being duped carried no risk, the document said.
Citing a 2006 ruling in which the Supreme Court set out the ground rules for judges, Mr. Gottardi told the judge that the Meng extradition hearing is exactly the kind of case former chief justice Beverley McLachlin warned against: extraditing in an implausible, manifestly unreliable case. |
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