Today simultaneous announcements were made by the governments
of Singapore and Canada that the extradition cases against Dade Murphy of
Dragonfire Cyber and Sabrina Meng of Huawei Technologies had been dismissed.
Officials in both countries denied that there was any connection between the
two cases. Both governments maintained that each of the cases had been dropped
as a matter of local statutory requirements.
Meng had been arrested in December of 2018 on a US extradition
warrant. Murphy was
arrested in June of this year on a Chinese warrant for computer hacking.
Johnathan Quest, spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of
Inquiry, said that there is still an active warrant out for the arrest of Meng.
He refused to comment on the Canadian denial of extradition.
A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Justice refused to
comment on the case against Murphy.
Nelson T. Johnson, spokesperson for the US State Department
told reporters in today’s daily briefing that there had been no negotiations
with the Chinese about the two cases.
Kate Libby at Dragonfire Cyber issued a corporate statement
that said: “We are happy to hear that the extradition proceedings in Singapore
have ended and look forward to having Dade return home. We expect for him to
arrive here on a private jet from Singapore tomorrow or the next day.”
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