After three years, Meng Wanzhou was freed by Canada.
The daughter of the founder of the Chinese Huawei communications, and Vice President of the same company, was arrested the first days of December 2018, in the city of Vancouver, in Canada.
The details of the arrest were not divulged by any means, but the United States was carrying out an investigation against Huawei by a possible violation of sanctions against Iran that had been imposed at the time, Huawei at the time reported that they had little information about the Charges and additional to this declared “I was not aware of any crime by Meng”.
For its part, the Canadian Ministry of Justice only confirmed the date and detention of Meng, claiming that the action corresponded to a request from the United States that sought extradition, the case was handled in total silence, and handled it very discreetly, both So neither the New York district, which was where the charges were presented against Meng, they did not want to make any kind of comment.
This detention of Meng occurred at a moment sensitive in commercial relations between the United States and China, the nations that have been characterized by maintaining a commercial war because each millionaire tariff taxes on numerous goods produced.
What was behind Meng's case?
China Qualifies Political Persecution The case of Meng, according to the Asian country, the goal would be to repress Chinese technological companies, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswide statements expressed the following “China's position On the case of Meng Wanzhou is coherent and clear. The facts already demonstrated that it is a case of political persecution of a citizen of the People's Republic of China, in order to exert pressure on Chinese high-tech companies.”
The affirmations of the United States that Meng had deceived Banco HSBC, on Huawei's business that would have violated Washington's sanctions against Iran.
Shortly after the arrest of Meng, China stopped the Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spawor, whom he accused of espionage, condemning Spawor at eleven years in prison, while Kovrig an expected his sentence, both have been released, played that left revealed That China only arrested these Canadian citizens in retaliation for Meng's arrest.
Return home.
Finally, Huawei's financial director, and possible heiress of the Chinese technology multinational, was freed and returns to China after years of diplomatic tensions about his case.
Days ago it was announced that Meng and the United States authorities had reached an agreement to suspend the judicial process by fraud against his person, making the US Department of Justice withdrawing the request for extradition he had requested against Meng, of The same way he declared, that he will continue to prepare for the trial against China Huawei company, and that he will still continue on his commercial black list.
The freed of 49-year-old Meng is given by the public recognition of the accusations, against the Prosecutor Nicole Boeckmann indicated in reference to HSBC the following; “By accepting the judicial deferral agreement, Mrs Meng assumes her responsibility in a scheme to defraud a global financial institution”.
With this, the extradition procedures against Meng are ended and the survey of the conditions of its bond was ordered, ending legal fight of almost three years, who kept Meng in a house arrest in Canada.
A few days after his freed, Meng took a flight to the Chinese city of Shenzhen, where a delegation with all the honors received Meng at the airport, while several citizens expected between songs of joy to which he cataloged as a national hero.
Meng, which will be quarantile after his arrival, showed his gratitude so much support he received from China his people, as well as the president, Xi Jinping, for all efforts that he made to force his liberation and to bring her back to his country.