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Canada Arrests Huawei's Global Chief Financial Officer in Vancouver

posted by martyb on Thursday December 06 2018, @10:18AM   Printer-friendly

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Canada Arrests Huawei's Global Chief Financial Officer in Vancouver, Canada

Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies who is facing extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran.

Wanzhou Meng, who is also the deputy chair of Huawei’s board and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Vancouver at the request of U.S. authorities.

“Wanzhou Meng was arrested in Vancouver on December 1. She is sought for extradition by the United States, and a bail hearing has been set for Friday,” Justice department spokesperson Ian McLeod said in a statement to The Globe and Mail. “As there is a publication ban in effect, we cannot provide any further detail at this time. The ban was sought by Ms. Meng.

A Canadian source with knowledge of the arrest said U.S. law enforcement authorities are alleging that Ms. Meng tried to evade the U.S. trade embargo against Iran but provided no further details.

Also at The Register and c|net.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @07:08AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @07:08AM (#771061)

    Also Iran after the war elected a leftish prime minister who wanted to nationalize the Iranian oil reserves that were at the time being extracted by British Petroleum (BP).

    London turned to DC for help with ousting him, so CIA went in an instigated a revolution complete with reinstating the shah that had been in exile.

    During the shah's rule, DC was buddy buddy to the point of selling Iran a bunch of F-14 jets that they still operate.

    But then there was a student/religious uprising that ousted the shah and replaced it with a religious leadership.

    A leadership that happens to be of a different major branch of Islam for the one practiced in Saudi-Arabia.

    On top of this, Iranians are not Arab but Persian (or at least majority that).

    All in all it is yet another legacy of the world wars, colonial times, and a sprinkling of cold war.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday December 07 2018, @01:36PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday December 07 2018, @01:36PM (#771131) Homepage
    ^^ upmod this, it's the perfect "nutshell" version of affairs.

    If you enjoyed that precis, fun extra google terms can also include things like ollie north and the contras...

    It a messy knot of twisted roots. Perhaps it's best to just burn it down rather than try and fix it...
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