Canadian court grants bail to CFO of China's Huawei

Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's chief financial officer (CFO), is seen in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters December 6, 2018. Huawei/Handout via REUTERS

By Julie Gordon and Michael Martina VANCOUVER/BEIJING (Reuters) - A Canadian court on Tuesday granted bail to a top executive of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd while she awaits an extradition hearing, following her arrest at the request of the United States. Meng Wanzhou, 46, Huawei's chief financial officer and daughter of its founder, was arrested as part of a U.S. fraud investigation on Dec. 1 as she was changing planes in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Reporting by Julie Gordon in Vancouver; writing by Nick Zieminski and Rosalba O'Brien; additional reporting by Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina in Beijing, John Ruwitch in Shanghai and David Ljunggren in Ottawa; editing by Cynthia Osterman and Bill Rigby)