Huawei technology denounces Canada for the arrest of a directive accused of fraud and conspiracy
Profile Probation and electronic anklet: this is Meng Wanzhou, the heiress of Huawei fallen from grace
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou
has been under
house arrest in Canada
for
three years
at the request of the United States
. Three years with a GPS bracelet on her ankle to prevent her from escaping to China while the US justice requested her extradition to try her on charges of bank fraud and conspiracy related to alleged violations of the United States sanctions on Iran by a subsidiary of Huawei.
This Friday, Meng (49 years old) reached an agreement with prosecutors in New York to end his detention in Vancouver and be able to
return to China
.
A Brooklyn court set a deferred prosecution, on the condition that it accept a "statement of fact" about the case, including providing "deliberately false statements" to HSBC bank about Huawei's business in Iran.
However, Meng
pleaded "not guilty"
to the fraud and conspiracy charges.
Although, as part of the deal, he did accept a "statement of fact" admitting that he knowingly made false statements to HSBC.
The charges would be dropped in December 2022 under the agreement, leaving her without a criminal record.
The Justice Department also
withdrew the extradition request
and the conditions of his bail were lifted. "Ms. Meng has taken responsibility for her lead role in perpetrating a scheme to defraud a global financial institution," the Justice Department said.
"Over the past three years, my life has radically changed. It was a disturbing time for me, as a mother, wife, and company executive. But I believe that every cloud has a silver lining. It really was an invaluable experience in my life. Never. I will forget all the good wishes I received from people all over the world, "Meng told reporters after his release. Shortly after, he boarded
an unscheduled Air China
flight to the city of Shenzhen, home to the telecommunications giant Huawei, where his father, Ren Zhengfei, founder of the company, awaits him.
This ends a judicial mess that further twisted China's relations with the United States and Canada.
Washington has accused Huawei that
Chinese authorities use its equipment for espionage
.
In 2019, the US imposed sanctions on Huawei and placed it on an export blacklist.
A week after Meng was arrested on December 1, 2018 in Vancouver at the request of US authorities, Chinese police detained two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, charged with espionage and "participating in activities that threaten national security. from China".
Washington and Ottawa said they were two arbitrary detentions in retaliation for Meng's arrest.
But the new agreement reached not only ensures Meng's release, it
has
also
prompted Beijing to release the two Canadians
, news that was announced by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. "At the same time that Meng took off, another flight carrying Kovrig and Spavor left Chinese airspace and they are on their way home," Trudeau said.
Spavor was imprisoned in the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong, near the border with North Korea. There lived this businessman who ran a company focused on sports exchanges between North Korea and Canada. He was the one who organized the controversial 2013 and 2017 visits of basketball star Dennis Rodman to Pyongyang. The other Michael arrested, Kovrig, was in Beijing. He worked between 2013 and 2016 in the Canadian embassies in the capital and in Hong Kong. At the time of his arrest, he was an employee of the International Crisis Group organization, dedicated to the analysis of armed conflicts in the world.
Kovrig and Spavor were tried last March.
Spavor was sentenced to
11 years in prison in China
, while no verdict was announced in Kovrig's case.
This entire process is canceled after the release of the Huawei heir in Vancouver.
Each piece returns free to its starting point: Meng Wanzhou to China and the Michaels back to Canada.
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