Lady Huawei, agreement for the return to China of the daughter of the founder Meng Wanzhou- Corriere.it

“Lady Huawei” will be able to return to China: Meng Wanzhou was arrested in 2018 in Vancouver at the request of the US for bank fraud and violation of sanctions against Iran

After nearly three years, the US Department of Justice has decided to let him return to China Meng Wanzhou, daughter of the founder of Huawei Ren Zhengfei.

The Lady since December 2018 he was in Canada, on probation, engaged in a legal battle against extradition. The accusation against the woman, the financial director of Huawei, is of bank fraud to circumvent US sanctions on the sale of technology to Iran.

A judicial case but with political connotations, given the clash between the two superpowers started by Donald Trump and continued by Joe Biden.

After months of negotiations with the Shenzhen telecommunications group and with Meng’s defense, the Justice Department decided to “postpone” for 14 months and then drop the extradition proceedings in Canada. The lady attended the Brooklyn Federal Court’s decision hearing on video link from Vancouver.

To grant her bail, in 2018, the Canadian judiciary had imposed on her carry an electronic bracelet 24 hours a day.

In these nearly three years she has done it with scruple and ostentation, when she left her Vancouver villa to shop in boutiques, have lunch in exclusive restaurants or always show up very elegant at the extradition hearings.

Meng always said she was innocent, hostage to the trade war for technological supremacy between the United States and China which had Huawei and its 5G as its first battlefield.

The plea deal closes a “personal” front in the power challenge and the conclusion has come significantly after the telephone conversation between Biden and Xi Jinping last week, the first in several months.

In December 2019, the lady had written an open letter to denounce having lived months “full of fear, pain, disappointment, frustration, torment and struggle”. Time passes slowly away from busy normal life, explained Meng Wanzhou, without reminding fellow Chinese citizens that they are housed in a villa worth ten million dollars, together with her husband and children, with a painting teacher and a music teacher available to dispel anxiety.

But before getting too moved by Meng’s affair, we need to give at least a thought to the gentlemen Michael Kovrig e Michael Spavor, Canadians. They too were arrested, a few days after Meng in December 2018, but in China. Vague allegations of conspiracy against state security: Spavor was sentenced to 11 years; Kovrig awaits the sentence. They are in the cell, without being able to see distant families. The deal for Meng could lead to release.

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