By Karen Freifeld
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department’s long-running criminal case accusing China’s Huawei of misleading banks about the tech company’s business in Iran, among other charges, is heading toward a January 2026 trial.
At a status conference on Thursday in Brooklyn, New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Solomon told U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly that “settlement discussions ended in an impasse. We believe it would be prudent to schedule a trial date.”
The judge said she thought a “good placeholder” date for the trial to start would be the beginning of January 2026.
The case, which has long strained U.S.-China ties, began in 2018 with a sealed indictment that led to Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou being detained in Vancouver, Canada, on a U.S. warrant.
As part of a 2021 deal, the charges against Meng, who is also the daughter of the company’s founder, were dismissed.
The broader case against Huawei is pending….
