Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou expected to plead guilty to US charges
CNN
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is expected to appear in a Brooklyn court Friday to plead guilty to US charges as part of a deal that would allow her to return to China, a person briefed on the matter told CNN. The plea would end a nearly three-year legal saga that has complicated relations between the United States, China and Canada.
The US case centers on whether Meng, who is also the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, misled HSBC about Huawei's relationship with an Iranian subsidiary, Skycom, which the US alleges could have put the bank at risk of sanctions violations.
The Department of Justice submitted a letter to District Judge Ann Donnelly on Friday acknowledging that it would address "a resolution of the charges against the defendant in this matter" at a hearing later in the day.