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Canada Arrests Top Huawei Executive For Allegedly Violating Iran Sanctions (theglobeandmail.com)
Canada has arrested Huawei's chief financial officer on suspicion of violating 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," reports The Globe and Mail. From the report: "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. Since at least 2016, U.S. authorities have been reviewing Huawei's alleged shipping of U.S.-origin products to Iran and other countries in violation of U.S. export and sanctions laws.
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. Since at least 2016, U.S. authorities have been reviewing Huawei's alleged shipping of U.S.-origin products to Iran and other countries in violation of U.S. export and sanctions laws.
Holding as a hostage for negotiation. I thought only terrorists think of this trick and a not a country that say "In God We Trust"?
* NAFTA has made Canada the USA's dog.
* Iran apparently goes from friend to foe to friend to foe, depending on the mood of the day of the USA, and if they bend over backwards to be the USA's proxy vassal against Russia yet again. Nobody seems to even care about the average people who actually have to live there.
* Trump is the first factor, that may be strong enough, to get the world to put an embargo on the USA. Let's be honest: It's only a question of time. (And if you scramble, to get rid of him, I must tell you that the next one very likely will be even worse, but seem nice [like Obama], and the one after that will be worse again, but not nice anymore. It's the traditional pattern of the fake two party system.)
* I just hope everyone is well. Americans, Canadians, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, etc. And that there was such a thing as a closed neuro-psychological therapy center for entire countries.
China did the same thing to a Rio Tinto executive from Australia. Sent the guy to prison for 8 years for--please don't laugh--corruption and stealing commercial secrets.
It's about time that the Chinese elite started getting hit back as hard as they hit everyone else.
Personally, I hope Trump sends her to Gitmo while they sort out whether to indict her just to make the Chinese elite squirm.
Yes, this is the Wikipedia entry for the Rio Tinto prosecution.
Several mining companies reported that their computer systems were compromised around that time.
That isn't what that means. That veil protects the investors, not the employees.
The reality is that many legal protections are afforded to the corporation by the presumption that it wants to do the right thing; it isn't a person, it isn't self-aware, so it can't desire to break the law.
So a law that bans a broad action, but where the individual steps are all otherwise-legal, then the crime falls on the corporation, and the individuals are all protected. And the corporation just gets a fine, because it didn't have intent, the sum of the (legal) individual actions simply added up to a crime.
But when the individual actions were themselves illegal, then it is entirely the fault of the employee; the corporation can't intentionally want you to do something wrong, it is just a piece of paper. If you were ordered to commit a crime, that was your boss committing a crime, and you were the accomplice. So the corporation is protected. Still financially responsible, though.
Here, the individual action violates sanctions, so that is an individual crime by the employee. And the resulting trade that the company was intentionally doing also is criminal. So a situation like this, you have a whole bunch of individual employees who committed crimes, but the corporation was aware of the trade and the people who should have stopped it didn't, so those acts land on both the individuals, and the company.
I am not a lawyer. If you don't want to violate sanctions against Iran, don't trade with Iran.
Julian Ku, a professor at Hofstra University Law School, wrote on Twitter that the move was justifiable. “US law prohibits exports of certain US-origin technologies to certain countries,” he said. “When Huawei pays to license certain US tech, it promises not to export to certain countries like Iran. So it is not unreasonable for the US to punish Huawei for flouting this US law.”
The only (legal) way to get the product out of the country is via an export license. The terms of that license say under what conditions said product can be removed from the country. Those terms include not selling the product to Iran. If you violate those terms you break the law, regardless of whether you own the thing you are selling.
The problem is that these sanctions are illegal (as in unilateral and not UN sanctioned) so for Huawei to actually follow the sanctions would be illegal and Huawei execs could be arrested for doing so. They cant win.
US law has no validity outside of US. I dont know how Canada is going to extradite when no crime has been committed on US soil or Candian soil. This is just a kidnapping.
**Life is too short to be serious**
Would you say the same about corruption? What about slavery? Criminal cartels?
Actually.... yes.
No matter which crimes you're talking about, extending a countries jurisdiction over the actual borders usually isn't a good idea. When X isn't a crime in country Y, country Z would only makes things worse by interfering directly. (Of course it's a completly different situation when Y and Z officials are cooperating or have any agreements on law enforcement)
U.S. gives up wealth an trade with Iran specifically to limit the human rights violations that this regime engages in bad faith. When a company develops a scheme to capture for themselves the profit that U.S. sacrifices, it is guilty of aiding human rights violations that the sanctions are limiting.
Well currently the US is in violaition of the contract they negotiated themselfes that was actually designed to end human right violations and building more nuclear weapons.
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Well, in this case it is not funny because expect counter arrests in 3.. 2.. 1.. . You know it will be coming, the government of China can be somewhat thin skinned at times and this arrest will come with penalties, it is inevitable, at a guess quite a few arrests for all sorts of reasons.
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