More than 4 years after her arrest, the drawn-out authorized saga of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou got here to a proper finish this week. On Friday, US District Judge Ann Donnelly dismissed an indictment towards Meng, in accordance with Reuters. On behalf of the US, Canadian authorities arrested Meng in 2018 for allegedly violating American sanctions towards Iran. Meng, who can be the daughter of Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, spent the following three years preventing makes an attempt to extradite her to the US, the place she confronted as much as 30 years in jail for financial institution and wire fraud prices. Donnelly dismissed the indictment “with prejudice,” which means the Justice Department can’t convey the identical prices towards Meng once more.

Before getting into into an settlement with US prosecutors final 12 months, Meng spent three years below home arrest. The detainment strained relationships between the United States and China and led to a world incident. China apprehended two Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, inside days of Meng’s arrest. They had been later launched after Meng entered right into a deferred prosecution settlement with the Justice Department. As a part of the settlement, she acknowledged having made false statements about Huawei’s enterprise in Iran. Meng flew house to China the day Donnelly authorized the pact.

Huawei and its subsidiaries are nonetheless going through prices within the US. Most notably, the Justice Department not too long ago introduced prices towards two Chinese spies who had allegedly tried to intervene in a felony investigation into the corporate. Earlier this week, the FCC additionally banned telecom and video surveillance gear from Huawei, amongst a handful of different Chinese corporations. Meng at present serves as the corporate’s rotating chairperson and deputy chairwoman, in addition to CFO.