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Huawei’s chief financial officer may still be under house arrest in Canada but she’s on the move — to her newly renovated $13 million mansion.

The Supreme Court of British Columbia approved Meng Wanzhou’s petition Wednesday to modify her bail terms, which included a request to move from her $5 million, six-bedroom residence near a park, to an estate more than triple the size in one of Vancouver’s toniest neighbourhoods. She’ll be just two doors down from the U.S. consul general’s residence, where the star-spangled banner flaps on the front lawn.

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“The existing home is a corner lot, exposed on three sides, there isn’t clarity between public and private portions,” one of Meng’s defence lawyers, David Martin, told the court. “Currently, large numbers of people go there, sometimes approach the house.”

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Such nuisances would be minimized with the move. The new home in the Shaughnessy neighbourhood is larger and enclosed, allowing her paid bail monitors “to carry out their duties more effectively and fully within the gated property,” Martin said. Meng plans to relocate on Saturday, according to an affidavit filed by her bail monitor.