Huawei president says CFO arrest resulted in Canada, Huawei becoming 'victims,' bond with Meng stronger

Huawei's president Ren Zhengfei said his daughter and the company's global CFO were in the marketplace for another task when Vancouver authorities arrested her in December.

Ren told CTV in an exclusive interview that the ii became close later on her arrest, adding that she wasn't able to handle setbacks well in the past.

"One month earlier that arrest, she wanted to resign and detect a task elsewhere. She was not happy working here only after existence arrested this matter improved our relationship and at present she understands how hard life can be," he said.

"In the past, she had a smoothen path. She couldn't have the setbacks very well…you have to suffer a lot before becoming a hero and if you don't have scars, you won't have tough pare," Ren had said in comments that were afterward translated into English language.

He said the two accept phone calls "every other day."

"We shoot the cakewalk, tell jokes, I tell her some chestnut I read on the net. The case in Canada made my bonds deeper with my girl," he said.

In January, the U.South. filed 13 counts of bank and wire charges against Meng, the company and its subsidiary Skycom, alleging Meng was able to manipulate banks in gild to do business with Skycom. The state alleges Skycom is an unofficial subsidiary of the telecommunications giant that is based in Iran and circumvented the U.Southward.'south sanctions on the country.

These charges take non been proven in court and Huawei maintains that Skycom is an independent company. On March 14th, Huawei pleaded not guilty to these charges.

Earlier in March, the B.C. Supreme Court told Meng to come up back on May eighth to learn more about the details of her extradition case, which Canada said information technology was proceeding with.

Ren maintains that Meng has committed no crime and, in fact, the state of affairs is resulting in both countries becoming the victim.

"Meng Wanzhou has committed no crime. She didn't violate whatsoever Canadian rules and I think both Canada and Huawei are victims because this instance hurts people in both countries and bilateral relations besides suffered setbacks," he said.

China has detained two Canadians on national security grounds and sentenced another Canadian to death on drug-related charges. The ii Canadians are still being held in custody.

Public Safety Government minister Ralph Goodale is currently conducting a review regarding whether the house volition exist able to provide equipment for the deployment 5G applied science.

Source: Reuters