Canada police says 'no idea' about how they obtained security code of Huawei CFO's home

A Canian officer who took custody of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s electronics on day of her arrest two years ago revealed that Royal Canian Mounted Police (RCMP) obtained passcodes of her electronic device, which defence lawyers allege violated her rights. According to Global News, Constable Gurvinder Dhaliwal on vember 23 said that officials h asked that Meng’s devices be seized and stored in special bags to prevent m from being erased remotely, however, he also testified in court that he was given security code by ar RCMP officer. 

Huawei CFO, Meng, has been for two years fighting extrition to United States, where she faces fraud charges related to company’s activities in Iran in breach of US Sanctions. She was arrested at Vancouver’s airport in December 2018, nearly three hours after CBSA officials began questioning her as part of a border exam. As per reports, this month’s hearing has heard from police and customs officers involved in her arrest. 

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Dhaliwal told BC Supreme Court under examination by Crown counsel John Gibb-Carsley that he wasn’t concerned when an officer handed him a piece of paper with passcodes written on it after immigration exam journed and she was being arrested by RCMP. He said that he never asked officers from border services to obtain passcodes or to ask any particular questions during Meng’s migration exam. Dhaliwal also ded that he h “ idea” where officials got passcodes from. 

Meng’s lawyers have been collecting information y hope will support ir allegations that Canian officers improperly gared evidence at request of US investigators under guise of a routine border exam. On Monday, court heard that security codes to at least one of Meng’s homes were also recorded on a piece of paper. 

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Meng’s extrition trial 

Meanwhile, Meng has denied charges against her in US and is fighting extrition from her house arrest. A Canian judge has denied Meng access to most of documents her lawyers wanted to use to help prevent her extrition to United States. Prosecutors have accused her of misleing a bank in US on Huawei’s relationship with a company operating in Iran, putting it at risk of penalties for flouting US sanctions on Tehran. 

However, defence lawyers have argued that case is about US sanctions on Iran and t a bank fraud case, ding that Cana has repudiated sanctions. In May, British Columbia’s Superior Court judge Hear Holmes ruled that legal standard of double criminality h been met. Holmes said that Meng’s approach would seriously limit Cana’s ability to fulfil its international obligations in extrition context for fraud and or ecomic crimes.

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