Meng Wanzhou is the deputy chair and CFO of telecom giant Huawei, founded by her father. She was arrested in Canada in 2018 on fraud charges by the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2021, the Department of Justice reached a deal with Meng to defer charges and withdraw its extradition request in exchange for Meng admitting to making untrue statements to a bank regarding business in Iran. The charges will be dismissed in 2022 if Meng is not charged with another crime.
Meng Wanzhou is the deputy chair and CFO of telecom giant Huawei, founded by her father. She was arrested in Canada in 2018 on fraud charges by the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2021, the Department of Justice reached a deal with Meng to defer charges and withdraw its extradition request in exchange for Meng admitting to making untrue statements to a bank regarding business in Iran. The charges will be dismissed in 2022 if Meng is not charged with another crime.
Meng Wanzhou is the deputy chair and CFO of telecom giant Huawei, founded by her father. She was arrested in Canada in 2018 on fraud charges by the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2021, the Department of Justice reached a deal with Meng to defer charges and withdraw its extradition request in exchange for Meng admitting to making untrue statements to a bank regarding business in Iran. The charges will be dismissed in 2022 if Meng is not charged with another crime.
(Chinese: 孟晚舟; born 13 February 1972); also known as Cathy
Meng and Sabrina Meng,[4] also informally known in China as 'The Princess of Huawei',[5] is a Chinese business executive who is the deputy chair of the board and chief financial officer (CFO) of telecom giant and China's largest privately held company,[6] Huawei, founded by her father Ren Zhengfei. On 1 December 2018, Meng was arrested at Vancouver International Airport.[7] On 28 January 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice announced financial fraud charges against Meng.[8] On 24 September 2021, the Department of Justice announced it had reached a deal with Meng to resolve their case against her by deferring their criminal charges and withdrawing their extradition request. As part of the deal, Meng agreed to a statement of facts in which she admitted she had made untrue statements to HSBC in order to transact business with Iran but was allowed to formally deny guilt for key charges.[9] The Department of Justice said it would move to dismiss all the charges against Meng when the deferral period ends on 21 December 2022, on the condition that Meng is not charged with a crime before then.[2] Meng left Canada for China on 24 September 2021.[10]
In Re: Gi Nam City of Philadelphia v. Gi Nam Marvin Krasny, Chapter 7 Trustee Frederic Baker, Assistant U. S. Trustee, Trustees City of Philadelphia, 273 F.3d 281, 3rd Cir. (2001)