ottawa a canadian judge will deliver a key decision wednesday on the extradition of huawei executive meng wanzhou that could set her free and help repair canadachina relationsfour days of legal arguments in january focused on whether us charges against the huawei princess would stand up in canada a key test for extraditionprosecutors accused her of committing fraud by lying to a us bank which is a crime in both canada and the united statesbut defense lawyers say the case hinges on violations of us sanctions against iran which canada and other us allies have repudiateda verdict in mengs favor would throw a wrench into the us prosecution of chinas top tech firm for the alleged fraud as well as theft of trade secrets from american companiesotherwise mengs case would continue on to a second phase in june followed by more hearings in septemberif she is discharged the crown would have 30 days to appeal british columbia supreme court justice heather holmess ruling on the socalled double criminality testbut meng would likely not have to stick around for an appeal to play out said extradition lawyer gary bottingshed be smart to leave the country he told afpon saturday meng took a premature victory lap giving a thumbs up as she posed for pictures with family and friends on the steps of the vancouver courthousethe eldest daughter of huawei founder ren zhengfei was arrested in december 2018 during a flight stopover in vancouver on a us warrantbeijing has signalled that her repatriation is a precondition for improved bilateral ties and its release of two canadians detained on espionage suspicionsthe arrests of former canadian diplomat michael kovrig and businessman michael spavor nine days after meng was taken into custody have been widely decried as retributionwhile meng is out on bail the two canadians remain in chinas opaque penal systemchina has also blocked billions of dollars worth of canadian agricultural exportsauthorities allege that meng lied to the hsbc bank about huaweis relationship with its iranbased affiliate skycom putting the bank at risk of violating us sanctionslawyers for canadas attorney general on behalf of the us justice department pointed to a 2013 presentation in hong kong in which she told hsbc executives that huawei no longer owned skycom and that she had resigned from its boardthe crown called this a deception asserting that huawei controlled the operations of skycom in iran and held its purse stringsfraud is at the heart of this case crown counsel robert frater told the courtlying to a bank to obtain financial services is fraud he saiddefense lawyer eric gottardi countered that mengs misrepresentations if they occurred do not amount to fraud and that canada had rejected the us sanctions against iran that ground the accusations in this casehe also accused the us of abusing its treaty with canada by asking it to arrest meng as part of a campaign against chinas largest international companyzhao lijian a spokesman for chinas foreign ministry on tuesday called mengs detention a