Huawei had plane waiting to whisk CFO away after May extradition judgment

(Reuters) – Huawei Technologies had a plane waiting to take Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou back to China from Vancouver as a key verdict in her extradition case was to be handed down last May, prosecutors said in a Canadian court on Tuesday.

Meng, 48, has been fighting extradition from Canada 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 Canadian judge sided with prosecutors representing the Canadian government on a key component of Meng’s case, allowing her extradition hearing to continue.