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A lawyer for Meng Wanzhou has raised concerns about what he calls the “political” nature of the Chinese business executive’s extradition case.

Richard Peck told a B.C. Supreme Court judge Wednesday that it was a rare and possibly unique extradition case and that he had “serious concerns” that were not common to most such cases.

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“There are issues about the political character, political motivation, comments by the U.S. president,” Peck said in an apparent reference to U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration in December that he might intervene in the case if he could get a better trade deal with China.

“There are issues arising out of the treatment of Ms. Meng on her arrival at the Vancouver International Airport and her detention and subsequent arrest. It’s a complex case. I don’t say that lightly.”

Peck made the comments during a brief appearance by Meng, the chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei, in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.