[EpochTimesSeptember292021](Epoch Times reporter Lin Yan comprehensive report) US Republican Representative Jim Banks (Jim Banks) sent a letter to the Attorney General on Tuesday (September 28), questioning whether the White House would intervene In the Meng Wanzhou case, all communications related to the Meng Wanzhou case between the White House, the State Department and the Department of Justice since President Joe Biden took office are required.
The White House denied that these actions constituted a prisoner exchange. Press Secretary Jen Psaki described the Meng Wanzhou case as an independent Justice Department action.
Banks expressed his disbelief. He said in the letter: “The agreement reached between the (Ministry of Justice) and Meng Wanzhou and the release of two (Canadian) prisoners by China (the Chinese Communist Party) clearly show that they are exchanging prisoners.”
“Isn’t this simply teaching China or other American opponents to detain Americans or our allies with suspicious’spying’ accusations until they get what they want? For this reason, Congress needs to know what an agreement has been reached with the Chinese government? The details and how it might lead to future hostage-taking by the CCP,” he wrote.
On the 24th, the U.S. Department of Justice and Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., reached an agreement to defer prosecution and allowed her to return to China.
Banks said that the indisputable evidence showed that Huawei violated US law and Meng Wanzhou was trying to cover it up.
“We learned from internal records that China’s Huawei Technologies Co. violated U.S. sanctions laws in December 2010 by sending banned U.S. computer equipment produced by Hewlett-Packard Company to Iran’s largest mobile phone operator. These records were recorded in 2020. It surfaced in March, echoing the facts in the U.S. indictment against Meng Wanzhou in 2018.” Banks said.
The prosecutor’s indictment also stated that Huawei used a now-liquid company Skycom Tech Co Ltd as its “unofficial subsidiary” in Iran to obtain contraband, but Meng Wanzhou claimed that Huawei and DBS The relationship between them is a “normal business relationship”.
Banks said that the deferred prosecution agreement also shows that Meng Wanzhou confirmed facts that the outside world has known for a long time-she admitted that she helped conceal Huawei’s direct dealings with Iran and violated US sanctions.
Banks wrote: “In exchange, Meng Wanzhou’s prosecution was suspended and will soon be dropped; at the same time, she flew back to China, where she was welcomed like a hero.
“Allow her to leave without even a small punishment. The United States is declaring to criminals that we are not serious about enforcing sanctions laws. For Iran, Hamas, Russia, North Korea and all other entities sanctioned by us. , This is what (they) dream about.
“I am deeply disturbed by the consequences, and I am deeply concerned about your messages to global entities that want to violate U.S. laws and engage in illegal capital flows.”
He also mentioned that when Meng Wanzhou returned to China, two Canadian citizens detained in China were released back to Canada by Beijing, which made him worry about how the hostage diplomacy of appeasing the CCP would affect the Americans currently living in China. Safety and security.
Banks said that Attorney General Merrick Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2021 that the integrity of the Justice Department will be protected from political influence.
“However, this series of events makes me doubt whether the White House and the State Department have intervened in this prosecution case. To what extent was the decision to release Meng Wanzhou affected by politics?” Banks questioned.
“Can you share with my office in the next 15 days, all the documents and correspondence between the Department of Justice, the White House and the State Department on this case from January 20, 2021 to September 27, 2021?” He added Say.
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