Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou freed after deal with US and flies back to China


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BBC 25th September 2021 – (Vancouver) A Chinese technology executive held in Canada on US fraud charges has been freed from house arrest, after years of diplomatic tensions over her fate. Meng flew back to China after the charges were dropped. Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, was detained on fraud charges in December 2018 at the request of the US. But a deal agreed with the US Department of Justice saw an extradition request dropped on Friday. The case infuriated China and strained relations with the US and Canada. It also prompted accusations that China had detained Canadian...