HUAWEI HAD JET READY TO WHISK CFO AWAY AFTER RULING

Huawei had a plane waiting to take Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, pictured, back to China from Vancouver as a key verdict in her extradition case was to be handed down last May, prosecutors said in court on Tuesday. Meng, 48, has been fighting extradition to the United States since her arrest at Vancouver International Airport over two years ago. She has been charged with bank fraud for allegedly misleading HSBC on Huawei’s business dealings in Iran, causing the bank to break U. S. sanctions. In May, a judge sided with prosecutors, allowing Meng’s extradition hearing to continue. Before the ruling was announced, Huawei chartered a 777 Boeing, ready to take Meng back to China, should the decision come down in her favour, prosecutor John Gibb- Carsley said in a bail-variation hearing Tuesday.