(Vancouver) A former executive with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said she had no concerns about the conduct of border officials involved in the detention of Chinese giant Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested at the Vancouver airport under a United States warrant.
Posted on December 11, 2020 at 7:25 p.m.
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Roslyn MacVicar was managing director of the border agency in the Pacific region at the time of Mme Meng, le 1is December 2018, although she said in court that she was out of town at the time.
Mme MacVicar, who is now retired, does not recall giving specific instructions on keeping records related to Mr.me Meng at the airport, but she claims her senior managers would have known it was planned.
Nicole Goodman, who oversaw passenger operations for the border agency, told the court this week that Mr.me MacVicar had advised him not to make any additional records on the case in the weeks following Mr.me Meng, because the notes could be part of an access to information request.
Roslyn MacVicar testifies at an evidence-gathering hearing, in which lawyers for Mr.me Meng examines the circumstances of their client’s arrest to support an abuse of process argument they should make next year.
Meng Wanzhou is wanted by the United States to respond to allegations of fraud and conspiracy in connection with US sanctions against Iran through a subsidiary of Huawei. Mme Meng and Huawei deny these claims.
The court heard on Thursday that lawyers for Mme Meng planned to present a new legal argument alleging that she had been the victim of an abuse of process and should be released.
His legal team has so far argued that Mr.me Meng had been used by the Trump administration as a bargaining chip for political purposes. She also alleged that the US authorities had misled their Canadian counterparts by leaving key information out of her file, and that the detention and arrest of Mr.me Meng were illegal.
His lawyers plan to file a fourth argument on Monday.
The extradition case is ongoing as some media report that the US Department of Justice will negotiate a deal where Mr.me Meng would admit certain wrongdoing, which would allow him to leave Canada.
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