VANCOUVER, Canada — A Canadian judge granted bail Tuesday to a top Huawei executive after her arrest on a US warrant, in a case that has frayed relations between the North American allies and China. Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, is wanted by US authorities for violating Iran sanctions but Beijing has expressed outrage over her detention and is holding a former Canadian diplomat in China, intensifying the row. Meng is accused of lying to bankers about the use of a covert subsidiary to sell to Iran in breach of sanctions. The United States must submit details of the accusations for the Canadian court to consider. Earlier Tuesday the three-way diplomatic stand-off over her arrest intensified with the news that China had detained Canadian national Michael Korvig.

Source: Philippine Star December 12, 2018 03:10 UTC