US jury hears Huawei finance chief's bank fraud admission at company's trial
By Samuel Rubenfeld ( October 7, 2026, 23:35 GMT | Insight) -- Huawei Technologies finance chief Meng Wanzhou's admission of defrauding the company's international banks was read aloud to a US jury on Wednesday in the Chinese telecoms giant's racketeering trial. A statement of facts that comprised Meng's admissions was read into the record by Leigh Ann Sweeney, a former FBI agent who had worked on the case in 2017 but is now an attorney litigating insurance fraud.Huawei Technologies finance chief Meng Wanzhou's admission of defrauding the company's international banks was read aloud to a US jury on Wednesday in the Chinese telecommunications giant's corporate trial....
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