translated from Spanish: Huawei: who is Meng Wanzhou, the Financial Director of the firm whose arrest strained the relationship between China and the United States

China and Huawei insist that it has not violated any laws, but if it is extradited to the USA and is found guilty, he could face up to 30 years in prison. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, the arrest of Meng was a serious violation of their rights.
Many of the senior directors of Huawei, the successful Executive has maintained a low public profile.
Until recently it didn’t even know that she was daughter of the founder of Huawei, the billionaire entrepreneur Ren Zhangfei.
However, most intimate details have been emerging in court following his case.
Ascent in the company could tell that the Lady Meng, 46-year-old, went from answering phones to handle the finances of the second-largest producer of mobile phones in the world in less than two decades.
In 1993 he started his career as a receptionist and, after completing a master’s degree in accounting from the University of science and technology of Huanzhong, in 1999, joined the ranks of Huawei, which amounted by the hierarchy of the greater China private company.
Once in the Finance Department, was appointed Financial Director of the company in 2011 and promoted to Vice-President a few months before his arrest.
The promotion generated speculations that Meng Wanzhou was being prepared to lead the company.
In 2018, Forbes magazine it registered as 12 of the most powerful Executive in China.
The Lady Meng has met with world leaders such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia, in 2014.
Until very recently, ties which had not known with his father and founder of Huawei, Ren Zhangfei.
At age 16, in a highly unusual move in the Chinese tradition, Meng Wanzhou adopted the surname of his mother, Meng Jun, who was the first spouse of Ren.
Chinese executives who have international friction tend to take a name for their activities abroad, so Meng Wanzhou is also known as Sabrina Meng and Cathy Meng.
What is accused?
Meng was arrested in Vancouver, Canada, when he changed planes on December 1.
Prosecutors allege that he conspired to defraud banks telling them that a subsidiary of Huawei was a separate company, which would allow Huawei circumvent commercial United States vetoes.
USA has been researching the technology giant from 2016, of which believed to you have used a subsidiary to carry manufacturing equipment Americans and millions of dollars in transactions to Iran.
The arrest of the Lady Meng has unleashed a growing diplomatic incident between China, Canada and the USA intimate details revealed in the court documents in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, where you can hear the case, raised details of life staff of the defendant.
It is a survivor of thyroid cancer who suffers from hypertension and disorders of sleep, according to his lawyers, and needs daily doses of drugs.
“I still feel bad and I worry that my health is deteriorating during my incarceration,” stated in the records. “I currently have difficulty eating solid food and I had to change my diet to deal with these problems.”
His lawyers request bail, ensuring that it does not represent a risk of flight, since it has “strong roots” in Vancouver.
Meng, has four children and has been married twice, told the Court that it was resident in Canada until 2009, when he returned to China.
Meng Whanzhou and his spouse have offered two houses in Vancouver as collateral for his bail.
Two of his children attended school in Vancouver between 2009 and 2012, while your spouse was studying for a master’s degree in that city.
Once the children have graduated, Meng spent “many weeks, sometimes months” in Vancouver during the summer, the affidavits say.
For that purpose, he bought a House of six rooms that has a current value of $4.2 million, according to the records of property the affidavit which were read in court.
In 2016, the couple bought a second home, a mansion that is estimated at $12.2 million. Both properties have been offered as security.
Life in Vancouver Court records allow a fascinating perspective of the life of a high Chinese Executive, said the editor of the Asia-Pacific service of the BBC, Michael Bristow.
“For several years, Vancouver has been the favorite destination of the rich in China: a place to live, educating children or as an insurance policy against the uncertainties of life in China”, said Bristow.
“People will be intrigued to learn that the Lady Meng has not a but two houses in Vancouver and will ask how was able to hold seven passports at the same time”.
How can you have seven passports?
That remains a mystery.
According to press reports, the Executive holds at least four Chinese passport and three Hong Kong passports, as this Tweet of an observer put it in Asia.
Chinese law States that if a citizen wants to obtain a passport from another country or region, you should deliver the Chinese.
Hong Kong immigration authorities refused to comment on the case of Meng Wanzhou, but stated that any passport holder could be “in possession of more than one” at the same time.
Some media reported that the U.S. Justice Department had at least seven passports in the last 11 years.
Records of entry and exit of the Customs and border protection U.S., indicate that Meng used three different Hong Kong passports to enter the United States on 33 occasions, between 2014 and 2017.
Although it is said that his second son is studying at an institution in Massachusetts, Meng has not returned to the U.S. from March 2017.
Canadian police told the Court that Huawei executives seem to have “altered their travel plans” to evade U.S. since they realized a criminal investigation against the company in April 2017.
The issue of passports and their wealth could be an impediment in his bail, but their lawyers say that does not present any risk by its declared purpose of not “cause great damage” to the Huawei company.