The Huawei executive implicated in the trade secrets theft scandal that allowed Huawei to covertly operate business in Iran established and oversaw the firm’s Australian operation.
According to corporate records, Meng Wanzhou was a director of Huawei’s Australian subsidiary between 2005 and 2011, and was allegedly engaged in a conspiracy to defraud international banks and US officials for four of the years she was an Australian director.
Huawei was founded by Ms Meng’s father, former Chinese army engineer turned industrialist Ren Zhengfei, and has become one of the biggest telecommunications companies in the world.