Case closed. "With no information Meng
violated the deal, 'the government respectfully moves to dismiss
the third superseding indictment in this case as to defendant
Wanzhou Meng,' Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Carolyn Pokorny wrote in a
Dec. 1 letter."https://t.co/3m1kQYPOUi
Meng struck a deal with the prosecutors last year for the charges against her to be dismissed on Dec. 1, 2022, four years from the date of her arrest in British Columbia on a U.S. warrant, as Reuters reported first.With no information Meng violated the deal, "the government respectfully moves to dismiss the third superseding indictment in this case as to defendant Wanzhou Meng," Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Carolyn Pokorny wrote in a Dec. 1 letter to U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly.Meng had been accused of bank fraud and other crimes for misleading global bank HSBC Holdings Plc about the company's business in Iran to obtain banking services in violation of U.S. sanctions.As part of her deal — a deferred prosecution agreement — she acknowledged that she had made false statements about the company's Iran business in a 2013 meeting with a bank executive.Meng's untrue statements were in a statement of facts that she agreed was accurate and voluntary and would not contradict.