U.S. Reaches Agreement to Release Huawei Executive Meng Wanzhou

The Justice Department has reached an agreement with Huawei Technologies that will allow its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, to return to China in exchange for admitting some wrongdoing in a sanctions violation case, a person familiar with the deal said on Friday.

Ms. Meng Wanzhou was scheduled for a hearing in a Brooklyn federal court on Friday afternoon for a resolution of her case, U.S. prosecutors said.

The Canadian authorities arrested Ms. Meng, 49, the technology giant’s chief financial officer, in December 2018 at Vancouver International Airport, at the request of the United States. Ms. Meng, the daughter of Huawei’s founder and chief executive, Ren Zhengfei, instantly became one of the world’s most famous detainees.