Wanzhou Meng, chief financial officer of Chinese telecom and key 5G tech player Huawei, has struck a prosecution agreement and was subsequently arraigned on charges she conspired to commit bank and wire fraud.
Huawei is one of a handful of Chinese companies whose network tech the Federal Communications Commission has deemed a threat to national security and will be disallowed in government-funded broadband networks.
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Meng was arrested by the Canadian government in 2018 at the request of the U.S. The agreement means she will now be released.
“In entering into the deferred prosecution agreement, Meng has taken responsibility for her principal role in perpetrating a scheme to defraud a global financial institution,” Nicole Boeckmann, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement.
DOJ said that as Huawei CFO, Meng made misrepresentations to a financial institution in an effort to preserve Huawei's banking relationship, which DOJ said essentially confirms its allegations that Meng and other Huawei employees conspired to misrepresent its activities in Iran in what was a "consistent pattern of deception.
