Canada Grants Bail For Arrested Huawei CFO Who Faces US Extradition (cnbc.com)

A judge in Vancouver, British Columbia, has set a $7.5 million U.S. bail for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested last week on suspicion of violating U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. "The United States had asked the Vancouver court to deny bail for Meng, whose father is a billionaire and a founder of Huawei, calling her a flight risk," reports CNBC. From the report: Canada has been expected to extradite Meng to the United States over charges that the company improperly took payments from Iran in violation of sanctions against the country. Meng's next moves will be closely watched, but it is likely with her corporate and family connections that she will be able to make bail. The $10 million CAD ($7.5 million USD) includes $7 million CAD ($5.2 million USD) cash and $3 million CAD ($2.2 million USD) more from five or more guarantors, presented by Meng and her attorney's as sureties that she would remain in the country. As conditions of the bail agreement, Meng must surrender her passports, wear a GPS tracking device and be accompanied by security detail whenever she leaves her residence.

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Re:China, no question

[caseih]

And now what if you are an American (or Canadian) national in China? No doubt China will retaliate. There are a lot of American businessmen who operate in China. They already occasionally are subject to arbitrary action on the part of the Chinese government. Would this not give China more excuses to use them as political tools?

Still don't believe there's an ongoing coup?

[MikeRT]

The fact that this happened right as Trump was smoothing things out with Xi can only be explained by a willful desire by DoJ staffers to make it blow up in Trump's face. It looks like aside from John Bolton, no one in the cabinet even knew that the DoJ was planning a move that amounts to making foreign policy.

Make no mistake. This move by the DoJ during the trade negotiations was no less aggressive and "making foreign policy" than if the DoD decided to move an entire carrier battle group off the shore of one of China's disputed islands and fly half its aircraft in a very aggressive, simulated bombing run of the PLA forces stationed there.

Re:Still don't believe there's an ongoing coup?

[Anonymous Coward]

DoJ Hypocrisy...

"Meng is charged with violating US sanctions on Iran. Yet consider her arrest in the context of the large number of companies, US and non-US, that have violated US sanctions against Iran and other countries. In 2011, for example, JP Morgan Chase paid $88.3 million in fines in 2011 for violating US sanctions against Cuba, Iran, and Sudan. Yet Jamie Dimon wasn’t grabbed off a plane and whisked into custody.

And JP Morgan Chase was hardly alone in violating US sanctions. Since 2010, the following major financial institutions paid fines for violating US sanctions: Banco do Brasil, Bank of America, Bank of Guam, Bank of Moscow, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Clearstream Banking, Commerzbank, Compass, Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, JP Morgan Chase, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, National Bank of Pakistan, PayPal, RBS (ABN Amro), Société Générale, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Trans-Pacific National Bank (now known as Beacon Business Bank), Standard Chartered, and Wells Fargo.

None of the CEOs or CFOs of these sanction-busting banks was arrested and taken into custody for these violations. In all of these cases, the corporation – rather than an individual manager – was held accountable. Nor were they held accountable for the pervasive lawbreaking in the lead-up to or aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, for which the banks paid a staggering $243 billion in fines, according to a recent tally. In light of this record, Meng’s arrest is a shocking break with practice. Yes, hold CEOs and CFOs accountable, but start at home in order to avoid hypocrisy, self-interest disguised as high principle, and the risk of inciting a new global conflict."

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-war-on-huawei-meng-wanzhou-arrest-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2018-12

Re:and what bondsman will take that risk?

[youngone]

It's Canada. They're a civilised country, so bail bondsmen are illegal.

Re:Those crazy Canucks...

[ClickOnThis]

Bet she's glad to be oot, eh?

Canadian expat here.

Dear Americans, we love you. But please, once and for all, Canadians do not say "oot." It's more like "aout" - soft 'a' followed by a rising 'o' to 'u' vowel transition, ending in a 't' consonant. Perhaps a linguist could explain it better. But it's not "oot."

Thank you.

Re: This is some sick shit.

[youngone]

Sanctions are actions which are taken instead of just going to war with a country

No, sanctions are taken with allies, not unilaterally. If your allies didn't agree to enforce them, you've done it wrong.

...Bombing the shit out of Iran, or sitting back and just watching them gas their own population...

That was Iraq. The US did bomb the shit out of it, and now its a hell hole.
If you don't even know which country you're talking about, I suppose there's no point in explaining how the US has spent the last 70 years or so getting it wrong in Iran every single time.

Re:Arrest "on suspicion"

[Uberbah]

and there is some extradition treaty the RCMP are bound by

The United States practices torture. As a signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture, Canada can tell the department of justice to GFY on any extraditions. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Re:China, no question

[iNaya]

You can replace "China" in those two sentences with "the United States", and they would be just as true.