[Epoch Times September 24, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Lin Yan comprehensive report) The Wall Street Journal reported more than 10 am Eastern Time on Friday (September 24). According to people familiar with the matter, the United States The Ministry of Justice has reached an agreement with Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou to allow her to return to China.
This means that after nearly three years of detention in Canada, Meng Wanzhou does not need to be extradited to the United States for interrogation.
Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested at Vancouver International Airport in December 2018. The United States issued an arrest warrant against her, accusing her of providing misleading information to HSBC regarding Huawei’s Iran-related business. Canada, which has an extradition treaty with the United States, arrested Meng Wanzhou at the request of the United States.
“Hua Ri” reported that sources revealed that the agreement is expected to be signed in court later on Friday and will require Meng Wanzhou to admit some wrongdoing in exchange for the prosecutor to postpone and subsequently revoke telecommunications and bank fraud against her. Allegations.
She is scheduled to attend the proceedings in Brooklyn Federal Court in New York via video on Friday afternoon.
Reuters first reported the news by citing sources. Reuters reported that under the deferred prosecution agreement, the U.S. government agreed not to prosecute the defendant for a period of time. If the defendant meets certain conditions, the case will be dropped completely.
Representatives of Huawei and the Ministry of Justice declined to comment.
“Hua Ri” reported that as the relationship between the United States and China deteriorated, especially after the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia announced their efforts to provide Australia with nuclear submarines in September to counter China’s (CCP) influence in the Indo-Pacific region, the release is expected on Friday. The Meng Wanzhou deal resolved a source of tension between the United States and China.
The Epoch Times reporter contacted the Federal Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York for inquiries, but there was no reply before the deadline.
Canadian media: Meng’s plea agreement does not include the release of two Canadians in prison
Canadian CBC television also quoted sources familiar with the matter on Friday as saying that if the New York court accepts the agreement, the Royal Canadian Attorney will appear in the Vancouver court later on Friday to suspend the extradition proceedings against Meng Wanzhou. Meng Wanzhou may be able to lift the house arrest as early as Friday.
Canadian “Globe and Mail” quoted sources familiar with the matter on Friday as saying that the plea agreement between Meng Wanzhou and the U.S. Department of Justice does not involve two Canadians imprisoned by the CCP, Kang Mingkai (Michael Kovrig) And Spaffer (Michael Spavor）。
The source said that any discussion about the release of the two Canadians will involve the Chinese Communist government, which requires that Meng Wanzhou be allowed to return to China;Even if Meng Wanzhou is allowed to leave Canada, it is unlikely that the two Canadians will be released immediately as part of the US settlement.
After Meng Wanzhou’s arrest, Beijing detained two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, and sentenced Spavor to 11 years in prison in August. This move is generally regarded as retaliation for Canada’s help in the arrest of Meng Wanzhou by the United States.
The Globe and Mail once reported that Dominic Barton, the Canadian ambassador to China, spent three weeks in Washington in early April and held talks with senior officials in the Biden administration to promote the release of two Canadians in Beijing.
Button met with the White House National Security Council and officials from the Justice, State Department, Defense, Treasury, and Commerce Departments. He also held talks with Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to the United States.
Canadian media: The US Department of Justice and Huawei have been negotiating for several weeks on the Meng Wanzhou case
The Globe and Mail first disclosed last Friday (September 17) that the US Department of Justice resumed negotiations on Meng Wanzhou’s plea agreement. The report quoted Canadian sources as saying that the U.S. Department of Justice has resumed negotiations with China’s Huawei and its lawyers on a deferred prosecution agreement that will allow Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou to return to China.
The source said that if Meng Wanzhou pleads guilty and pays a huge fine, the United States is prepared to terminate the extradition request and the criminal prosecution process against her. Two of the sources said that the talks between the two sides have actually been going on for several weeks.
Meng Wanzhou has always insisted on his innocence. During the defense of the extradition request, she was released on bail and under residential surveillance in her mansion in Vancouver. The judicial hearing for her extradition case ended in August, and the ruling date was set for October 21.
The Globe and Mail reported that Huawei’s talks with the United States did not include the issue of the two Canadians.
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