Huawei CFO leaves Canada after agreement with U.S. over fraud charges
The Hindu
Detained Canadians head home
Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou flew home to China on Friday, September, 24, 2021, after reaching an agreement with U.S. prosecutors to end the bank fraud case against her relieving a point of tension between China and the UnitedStates.
Within hours of the news of the deal, two Canadians who were arrested shortly after Ms. Meng was taken into custody in December 2018 were released from Chinese jails and were on their way back to Canada. Beijing had denied that their arrests were linked.
The years-long extradition drama has been a central source of discord in increasingly rocky ties between Beijing and Washington, with Chinese officials signaling that the case needed to be dropped to help end a diplomatic stalemate betweenthe world's top two powers.