The US accusations that Meng Wanzhou had defrauded HSBC existed in an “evidentiary vacuum”, her lawyer told her Canadian extradition hearing on Tuesday, as he dismissed arguments that she had put the bank’s reputation or loans to Huawei Technologies at risk.
Such risks were at best “remote” and “speculative”, if not zero, said lawyer Scott Fenton, as hearings in the extradition case neared their end, almost 1,000 days after Meng’s arrest at Vancouver International Airport on a US warrant.
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