RCMP, CBSA claim Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou's phones weren't examined

RCMP, CBSA claim Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou'due south phones weren't examined

Meng'south personal devices included a Huawei Mate xx RS, an iPhone 7 Plus, an iPad Pro and a MacBook Air

Lawyers for the Regal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) claim that agents accept never examined the personal electronic devices of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, which included a Huawei Mate 20 RS, an iPhone 7 Plus, an iPad Pro and a MacBook Air.

Both federal agencies filed a joint response in the B.C. Supreme Court on June third, which disputed Meng's civil suit regarding the violation of her Charter rights during her arrest at Vancouver International Airport on December 1st, 2018.

The submitted court document named two border agents who searched Meng's luggage after she stepped off the flight from Hong Kong. Still, the certificate claimed that i officer merely wrote downward the telephone numbers and passwords without conducting a search of her electronic devices, and the police were non involved in the searching.

"The RCMP did non receive any information that the CBSA obtained in the course of the immigration and customs examinations of the plaintiff other than the piece of newspaper containing the phone numbers and passwords for the phones," the RCMP and CBSA response reads.

The police force and border service said that they followed standard procedure with Meng by flagging her for a secondary inspection and searching her luggage while request nigh the purpose of her trip.

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Contrary to previous court documents, the new response shows that Meng intended to clear customs and visit her house in Vancouver instead of spending a brief layover at the airport before flying to Mexico City.

The response document likewise claimed that the RCMP asked the CBSA to protect whatever mobile phones that the plaintiff might have past placing them in bags, which the RCMP supplied to the CBSA, and then that whatsoever data could not be remotely deleted."

Meng Wanzhou filed a civil conform confronting the two federal agencies in March, around the same fourth dimension when Huawei sued the U.S. government for mistreatment. Meng'due south civil adapt claimed that ii edge agencies were asked past U.S. officials to take her detained for iii hours and examined her smartphone without explaining the reason.

Her legal team are set to brand a cursory advent at B.C. Supreme Court on June 6th for the preparation of a long term legal battle against the U.S. extradition request.

Source: CBC News