Canada says Trump interference in Huawei’s Meng extradition case ‘moot’

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s attorney general says accusations that former U.S. President Donald Trump’s interfered in Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou’s extradition trial is irrelevant because he is no longer in office.

Meng is facing charges of bank fraud in the United States over misleading HSBC about Huawei’s business dealings in Iran, causing the bank to violate U.S. sanctions.

She has been under house arrest in Vancouver, Canada, since her arrest at the airport there in December 2018 and is fighting extradition in the British Columbia Supreme Court.