VANCOUVER—Canadian Minister of Justice David Lametti has until March 1 to make a decision on whether to approve extradition proceedings against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, the B.C. Supreme Court heard on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Meng has expanded her counsel to include lawyers from Peck and Company in Vancouver and Fenton, Smith Barristers in Toronto, bringing her total legal team up to seven members, lawyer David Martin said.

The U.S. government has formally requested the extradition of Meng to face multiple charges related to fraud. The formal charges came via unsealed grand jury indictments on Monday. She will return to court March 6.

Meng, who was arrested on Dec. 1 at the request of the U.S., was granted $10-million bail on Dec. 11. She was in a Vancouver courtroom on Tuesday to request a change related to her bail.

Martin told the court that one of Meng’s original sureties, a realtor who had pledged his $1.8-million home to release Meng from custody, had forgotten to bring a piece of required paperwork last month. Instead, someone else put up money to cover for the value of her realtor’s bail contribution.

The court granted an application to restore the realtor and his wife, as Meng’s surety. Martin told the judge that the realtor’s home had lost some of its $1.8-million value and some of that would have to be made up with cash.

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Through land title records, StarMetro identified the realtor and his wife as real estate agents Robert Cheng and Theresa Cheng, whose $1.8 million home is located in Burnaby’s Burquitlam neighbourhood.

Neither of the Chengs were home early Tuesday afternoon. Theresa Cheng, reached by phone, declined to comment about the case, citing it as a “personal” matter.

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Earlier in court, Robert Cheng was described as Meng’s realtor for the purchase of her two multimillion-dollar homes in Vancouver, one in Shaughnessy worth $16.3 million and the one she is living in now, a $5.6-million house in Dunbar. Cheng has known her since 2009, and managed a data centre prior to becoming a realtor.

“I understand that as surety my duty is to the court. I also understand should Ms. Meng violate her conditons, I might lose my home,” Robert Cheng said through Meng’s lawyer during an earlier appearance.

Multiple parties were named as surety following Meng’s bail hearing last month. They included the realtor, two former employees of Huawei and their family members, a neighbour, and Scot Filer, CEO of Lions Gate Risk Management — the group responsible for making sure Meng sticks to her bail conditions. Cash was also put up by her husband, Liu Xiaozong.

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