Huawei's chief financial officer will complete house arrest in a $ 10 million mansion

The Supreme Court of British Columbia approved the application Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., under arrest at home, to change the terms of your link and moved to his recently renovated $ 13 million Canadian ($ 10 million) hotel.

In addition, it included a request from a six-room home and a five-million-dollar home near a park to a home more than three times the size of one of Vancouver's most elegant neighborhoods. It will be two doors from the residence of the Consul General of the United States.

"The current house is a corner plot, exposed on three sides, there is no clarity between the public and private parties," said one of Meng's defense attorneys to the court. David Martin. "Right now, a lot of people are pbading by, sometimes they come home," he added.

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Such disadvantages would be minimized with the move. The new home in the Shaughnessy neighborhood is larger and more secure, allowing security guards to pay "to meet their obligations more effectively and integrally in the gated property," Martin said. .

The conditions of the deposit Meng, which allows him to travel freely through a 62-square-kilometer area of ​​Vancouver, provided that he is accompanied by his monitors, contrasts with that of two Canadians arrested in China for reasons of national security shortly after the arrest of Wanzhou.

Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor they will soon be five months secret prisonswhere they received only a few consular visits between the two. China accuses Kovrig, a Canadian diplomat, spying and tour guide Spavor, North Korea, for providing him with information. They have been isolated and interrogated several times a day in cells where the lights can not be extinguished.

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Meng was in court Wednesday when her lawyers presented her defense strategy and claimed that her constitutional rights had been violated when she had been detained for three hours at the Vancouver airport before being arrested. at the request of the US authorities. Moreover, they plan to question the "double criminality", refuting the fact that USA. he alleges that he – inviting banks to deceive them and to carry out transactions for Huawei that could have violated US sanctions – is a crime in Canada.

His next court appearance is scheduled for 23 September.