Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou has received a series of threatening letters, some containing bullets, while under house arrest in Vancouver. Doug Maynard, chief operating officer of Lions Gate Risk Management, revealed the details during a B.C. Supreme Court hearing.
Maynard said that his employees collaborated with Vancouver police investigators to catch the perpetrator. Meng received “five or six” threatening letters at her residence in June and July 2020. The letters were “coming by mail and they were easily identifiable by markings on the outside”, Maynard said.
“They were easily identifiable by markings on the outside, and we were working hand in hand with the Vancouver police in an attempt to keep that evidence as pristine as possible,” Maynard said.
The details of the investigation were made public during the second day of heading at which Meng is pushing for looser bail conditions that will allow her to spend daytime without the security detail who accompany her everywhere.
Maynard said his team and Meng's staff devised a plan whereby gloved security guards would open all the mail delivered to them by a letter carrier before handing off items unrelated to the investigation.
“And they would give a rough translation of the letter confirming that it was another threatening letter,” he said. “And sometimes there were bullets inside the envelopes.”
