Meng Wanzhou extradition case: Canadian lawyer says ‘irrelevant’ HSBC documents must not be allowed as evidence


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Hundreds of pages of documents provided to Meng Wanzhou by HSBC bank should be rejected from her Canadian extradition hearing because the potential evidence is irrelevant to the proceeding, a government lawyer said on Wednesday. Earlier, Meng’s team continued their attack on the record of the case that US prosecutors submitted to the hearing; they say the HSBC documents show that the case record is selective, misleading, “manifestly unreliable” and “outright false”. But Robert Frater, the top lawyer in the Canadian Department of Justice – which is representing US interests in Meng’s marathon extradition battle – told the Supreme Court...