Meng’s Judge Questions Thoroughness of Alleged ‘Covert Criminal Investigation’

Chief Financial Officer of Huawei Meng Wanzhou leaves her home in Vancouver, on March 18, 2021. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER—A B.C. Supreme Court judge is questioning why border officers didn’t question Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou more rigorously if their exam was actually a covert criminal investigation, as her lawyers say.

Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes says a few questions asked by border officials touched on topics that her lawyers say were relevant to a criminal investigation in the United States, but the exam was hardly “grilling.”