Huawei CFO asks Canada to drop security detail to loosen bail conditions

(Reuters) – Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou argued in a court on Tuesday to let her leave home without the security detail that was a condition of her bail since she was released after her December 2018 arrest.

Meng’s husband, Liu Xiaozong, gave an affidavit citing the negative impacts his wife’s bail conditions have had on her and their family.

Meng, 48, was detained at the Vancouver International Airport two years ago by Canadian authorities acting on a U.S. arrest warrant. She faces charges in the United States of bank fraud for allegedly misleading HSBC bank about Huawei’s business dealings in Iran, causing the bank to break U.S. sanctions.