mo4ch:>US charges against Huawei executive stem from 2013 – bail hearing | Mo4ch News

Washington's charges against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou are linked to a 2013 case, it's been revealed – raising the question whether her sudden arrest amid a truce in the US-China trade war is a thinly-veiled sneak attack.Court papers from the bail hearing of the Huawei CFO in Canada show the charges against her go back at least five years. Meng is being accused of violating US sanctions against Iran and deceiving banks to do so, and faces extradition to the US.Meng allegedly used a fake English name and served on the board of a Huawei subsidiary company called Skycom (though the relationship between the two firms has not been proven). In 2010, Skycom was caught attempting to smuggle embargoed cellphones into Iran, and in 2013 Meng allegedly lied to US banks that she had no links to Skycom.If convicted, Meng could face up to 30 years in prison for each charge of conspiracy to defraud financial institutions, despite that some of the alleged fraud victims named never even pre…