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孟晚舟案再次开庭!律师:汇丰银行配合美国进行构陷

CGTN 2021-09-28

加拿大温哥华当地时间6月15日,孟晚舟引渡案再次开庭听证。

孟晚舟的律师团队向加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚高等法院提交了一份备忘录。备忘录说,美国司法部提交用于要求引渡的《起诉案件记录》中,指控孟晚舟的唯一关键证据是由汇丰银行提供的;但是美方对这份证据的总结遗漏了重大信息,甚至存在故意误导行为。

目前,孟晚舟的律师团队正在以滥用程序、证据不充分等理由要求终止引渡程序。

Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese tech firm Huawei, claimed U.S. authorities are trying to mislead the judge overseeing Meng's extradition hearing by providing an outline of the case that is misleading and omitted important details.

The lawyers made the remarks in a memo, which was made public after a hearing in Vancouver on Meng's extradition case on Monday.

In the case management memo, Meng's lawyers claim that the only key evidence to support Meng's extradition is provided by HSBC, and this evidence presents "deliberate and/or reckless misstatements of fact and material omissions."

The lawyers argued the records, filed to justify the U.S. request of extradition on charges of fraud, are "so replete with intentional or reckless error" that the only way to deal with them is a stay of proceedings.

Misstatements and omissions


备忘录指出,2012年12月,汇丰银行因其自身的违法行为,包括违反美国对伊朗的制裁规定,向美国司法部支付了一笔19亿美元的罚款,并与美国签署了一份《暂缓起诉协议》。 


2013年8月22日,孟晚舟在香港向汇丰银行的一名银行高管做了PPT演讲,这份PPT此后被汇丰转交给美国,并成为了加拿大法庭认为孟晚舟欺诈汇丰银行的依据。

关于华为在伊朗业务运营的情况,孟晚舟在演讲中介绍,华为与一家名为Skycom的公司在伊朗就销售和服务展开商业合作。

然而,美方的《起诉案件记录》承认,汇丰银行的“初级”员工清楚华为与Skycom公司之间的关系,但是又说汇丰银行的高级管理者对此并不清楚。孟晚舟的律师认为,这一说法是难以令人置信的,律师团队将向法庭提供更多证据证明这是“重大不实陈述”。   

Meng's defense team finds it implausible as HSBC has paid a 1.9-billion-U.S.-dollar fine and entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) related to its own independent misconduct, including in relation to violations of U.S. sanctions law regarding Iran.

Meng's lawyers claim the record of the case (ROC) in support the accusation against Meng is incomplete on several fronts, starting with the PowerPoint presentation delivered by Meng on August 22, 2013 to a HSBC banker in Hong Kong.

Regarding Huawei's ongoing business operations in Iran, there are clear statements in the slides, including "as a business partner of Huawei, Skycom works with Huawei in sales and service in Iran," according to a source acquired by China Media Group.

The ROC asserts that only "junior" employees were aware of Huawei's business in Iran, and did not relay this information to "senior" executives at HSBC.

Abuse of process


美国总统特朗普曾经宣称要拿孟晚舟当中美之间“筹码”的言论,也是孟晚舟律师们准备用来证明此案是政治操作的一个方向。


另据加拿大媒体报道,加拿大联邦法院6月12日允许公开加拿大安全情报局(CSIS)2018年12月1日的一份备忘录显示,加方负责逮捕孟晚舟行动的加拿大联邦警务国家安全部门(FPNS)在逮捕前对逮捕行动进行评估认为,逮捕具有“高度政治性”,并将“引发全球性的震荡波”。

这份备忘录显示,加拿大联邦警察和边境服务局是在美国联邦调查局(FBI)的告知下,在温哥华国际机场逮捕孟晚舟的。

加拿大边境服务局的人员不仅以“入境检查”为名欺骗了孟晚舟,对她非法扣押、非法搜查并非法进行了涉及美方指控罪名的审讯,而且边境服务局的人员还在美国FBI的指使下非法扣留了她的电子设备,非法向她索要了密码。

Meng's defence team also argued that Meng's legal rights are being violated by the political interference from the U.S., as U.S. President Donald Trump once indicated shortly after Meng's arrest that he would intervene in the case if it results in a better trade deal with China.

Earlier this month, documents released by a Canadian court revealed that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service predicted Meng's arrest in December 2018 would send "shock waves around the world and is certain to be a significant bilateral (Canada-China; U.S.-China) issue." The document indicates that Canada was aware of the political calculation behind Meng's arrest. 

Additionally, Meng's team argued that the Canada Border Services Agency, the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service conspired with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to mount a covert investigation against Meng when she got off the plane.

The authorities have used the extraordinary powers of border agents to detain Meng before she was officially arrested, seizing her electronic devices, compelling her to give over passwords and questioning her without a lawyer about Huawei's activities in Iran.

Arrest of Huawei's Meng Wanzhou a 'political conspiracy'


在6月15日的外交部例行记者会上,发言人赵立坚表示,加拿大法院披露的有关文件,再次表明孟晚舟事件是一起彻头彻尾的严重政治事件,充分暴露了美国蓄意打压中国高技术企业和华为公司的政治图谋,加拿大扮演了美方帮凶的角色。

赵立坚说,中国政府维护本国公民和企业正当合法权益的决心坚定不移。我们再次敦促加方认真对待中方的严正立场和关切,立即释放孟晚舟女士,并让她平安回到中国。

China restated on Monday that the arrest of Huawei's Meng Wanzhou is an utter political conspiracy of the United States trying to crack down on Huawei and other Chinese high-tech companies, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a regular press conference that China urged Canada to immediately release the daughter of the founder of the Chinese tech giant, and accused Canada of being an accomplice to the U.S. 

China is determined to safeguard the legitimate rights of its citizens, Zhao added.

加拿大法院12日公布加安全情报局(CSIS)2018年12月1日的一份备忘录显示,美国联邦调查局(FBI)告知加安全情报局有关当日晚些时候在温哥华国际机场逮捕孟晚舟的计划。备忘录并指出,FBI不参与逮捕行动以免外界认为美方施加了影响。

孟晚舟的法律团队称,上述备忘录表明加安全情报局故意掩盖FBI参与此事,已有公开文件显示FBI频繁与加执法部门联系。

The remarks came as newly released Canadian court documents on Friday revealed that the FBI advised the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to arrest Meng without the FBI's involvement, according to a CSIS memo on December 1, 2018, the same day that Meng was arrested in Vancouver. 

Lawyers on Meng's side claim that the memo proves that the CSIS has deliberately tried to conceal the FBI's involvement in the case.

2018年12月1日,孟晚舟搭乘飞机从香港前往墨西哥。在温哥华转机时,她被加拿大警方应美国政府司法互助要求逮捕。12 月 11 日,孟晚舟获不列颠哥伦比亚省高等法院准许保释,此后开始了她长达一年半的软禁生涯。

法庭当天未就案件本身作出任何决定,但是把下一次开庭日期定在了6月23日。

Meng was arrested at Vancouver's international airport on December 1, 2018, on an extradition warrant after arriving from Hong Kong on her way to Argentina, and she was released on a 10-million-U.S.-dollar bail and has been living for the past year and a half under a form of house arrest in Vancouver.

The court did not make any decision on Monday, but set the next hearing on June 23. 


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