Lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou alleged in court documents released Wednesday that she was unlawfully detained and questioned by Canadian border agents in Vancouver last year.
Border agents detained her under the pretense of an
immigration matter and never alerted her to a US warrant for her arrest, questioning her for hours before eventually handing her over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the lawyers said.
"From the outset of the applicant's detention," the RCMP and border agents were acting on behalf of "the
FBI for the purpose of obtaining and preserving evidence," Meng's lawyers said.