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Ian Young

A Canadian court has ordered federal police to destroy a handwritten note carrying the passwords to Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou’s phones.
The note became a controversial piece of evidence in Meng’s now-defunct extradition case when it emerged that officers had obtained it in breach of privacy laws.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia’s order, dated October 21 and made public on Monday, also demanded that Meng’s electronic devices be handed over to her lawyers, as well as electronic copies of their contents which are to be erased or destroyed.

The devices seized from Meng when she was arrested at Vancouver’s airport on December 1, 2018, are listed as an Apple Macbook Air laptop, an Apple iPad Pro, an iPhone 7 Plus, a Huawei Porsche Design Mate 20 phone, a Scandisk memory stick, and the two phones’ SIM cards.
Meng’s passwords were jotted down on a piece of paper by border officer Scott Kirkland, something that was described as a routine procedure during extradition proceedings for the chief financial officer of Huawei.
But by giving the note to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police when they arrested Meng, Kirkland, admitted that he had broken privacy laws and said he had made an “embarrassing” and “heart-wrenching” mistake.
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Meng’s lawyers depicted the handover as a deliberate and covert attempt to help the RCMP and the American Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Meng’s extradition case, which threw China’s relations with Canada and the US into turmoil, ended on September 24 when the US struck a deferred prosecution agreement with her that effectively halted the fraud case against her.

She was freed and immediately flew back to China on a chartered jet.
The court order for the return of the exhibits in the case, signed by Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes, also requires the RCMP to destroy any copies of the serial numbers of Meng’s devices, and not to share those numbers with any other law enforcement agency.


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This is the handwritten note of Meng Wanzhou's phone passcodes, that was handed by Canadian border officer Scott Kirkland to Canadian police on the day of her arrest, in breach of privacy laws. Photo: Supreme Court of British Columbia

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Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., delivers a statement to members of the media as she exits provincial court in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. Meng and the U.S. Justice Department reached a deal to resolve criminal charges against her, a breakthrough in a case that raised tensions between China, Canada and the U.S. Photographer: Jimmy Jeong/Bloomberg

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The passwords were jotted down by a Canadian border officer, then given to police in breach of privacy laws after her arrest in Vancouver
Devices seized from Meng included a Huawei phone, an iPhone, an Apple laptop and an iPad



The passwords were jotted down by a border officer, then given to police in breach of privacy laws after Meng’s arrest. Devices seized included a Huawei phone, an iPhone, an Apple laptop and an iPad.


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