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The latest court filings of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's case showed Meng was falsely charged, and HSBC played the role of Washington's accomplice to politicize the case, observers said.
Meng is accused of lying to an HSBC executive in Hong Kong in August 2013 about Huawei's relationship with Skycom, a company which the US government charged violated its sanctions on Iran.
But in new court filings published on Thursday local time, Meng's lawyers are arguing the documents submitted by US prosecutors have been improperly tailored to support the accusation against Meng. They said US prosecutors have selectively quoted evidence, causing inaccuracies and distortions in several aspects, including the summary of the PowerPoint presentation Meng is alleged to have given to the HSBC executive.
The defense team said the summary of the PPT is misleading because it left out critical disclosures Meng made in the PPT regarding Huawei's relationship with Skycom.
Meng's lawyers also argued HSBC claimed it had extended $900 million to Huawei following Meng's alleged lies, but the bank's portion of that amount was actually $80 million, and the $900 million was never drawn by Huawei.
Meng's lawyers accused the United States of using her as a bargaining chip in negotiations with China, and misleading the Canadian government and courts with distorted facts. Meng's lawyers have alleged "abuse of process" by the US government and are "seeking a stay of extradition proceedings," according to Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.
The lawyers cited US President Donald Trump's comments that he would "certainly intervene" in the Meng case if it would help get a better trade deal with China, the report said.
"These proceedings have been poisoned. They can no longer be reasonably regarded as fair, regardless of the undoubted good faith of the court," according to the lastest court filing of Meng's lawyers.