Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer, walked free on Friday after reaching a deal with US prosecutors to resolve criminal fraud charges that led to her detention in Vancouver for nearly three years and deepened a diplomatic rift between China and the US and Canada.
A Canadian judge ordered Meng’s release on Friday, just hours after US prosecutors announced a deferred prosecution agreement with her during a federal court hearing in Brooklyn before US Judge Ann Donnelly. Meng, 49, attended the US hearing by video.
If Meng complies with the terms of the US agreement — in which she acknowledged misleading HSBC about Huawei’s relationship with a Hong Kong-based company called Skycom that operated in Iran — the charges against her will be dismissed by December 2022, US prosecutors said.