Huawei CFO fights extradition as Beijing raises pressure

Meng Wanzhou’s final push comes as a court in China declared a Canadian national guilty in a spying scandal.

Lawyers for Huawei Technologies Co.’s chief financial officer made a final push for a Canadian court to reject a U.S. extradition request, as Beijing raised pressure on Ottawa with a series of rulings in criminal cases against Canadian nationals. Meng Wanzhou’s defense lawyers argued that allowing her to face fraud charges in New York would encourage improper demands by American authorities. The U.S. “is not in charge of policing the world,” and halting the extradition was the only way to remedy alleged abuses by U.S. and Canadian authorities, lawyer Tony Paisana told a judge in Vancouver on Monday. “Misconduct of this sort cannot ever be tolerated, for to do so is to condone, perhaps even to invite, similar conduct,” Paisana told Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes in British Columbia Supreme Court.