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Sep 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
#MengWanzhou's lawyer used a weird analogy about Meng’s hair colour to suggest it didn't matter whether or not she lied in parts of a presentation to a HSBC banker, that forms the basis of US fraud charges scmp.com/news/china/soc… via @SCMPNews
HSBC could not have been defrauded, Frank Addario argued, because the bank must have known after Meng's presentation that both Huawei and Skycom were working in Iran...
“A mere lie, if she’s asked in that meeting, ‘is your hair naturally blonde or naturally brunette’ and she lies about it – it’s not material to US sanctions risk. Even if [HSBC] said ‘we are only going to deal with brunettes’ …
"The only thing material is that they [Huawei and Skycom] are both doing business in Iran.” Yeah, it was a pretty weird analogy, and pretty sure Meng is not a natural blonde

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