Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in the Canadian city of Vancouver on 1 December 2018, for reportedly failing to comply with US sanctions against Iran, and now faces extradition to the United States.
Washington has notified the Canadian government that it intends to proceed with a formal demand to extradite Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou on accusations of violating US sanctions against Iran, according to The Globe and Mail. The deadline for the filing is reportedly 30 January.
However, Canada’s envoy to the US David MacNaughton has not yet confirmed when the formal extradition request would be made, according to the media outlet.
This comes a day after former Canadian Security Intelligence Service chief Richard Fadden urged the Canadian government in an article to ban China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from supplying equipment to Canadian 5G networks because the “security risk is too great”.