James McCarten, The Canadian Press

WASHINGTON — The United States on Friday ended the legal saga surrounding Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer, whose arrest in Canada in 2018 sparked an international standoff that left lasting scars on Canada-China relations.

A federal judge officially dismissed the final remaining charges against Ms. Meng after prosecutors agreed she complied with the terms of her suspended prosecution agreement.

The order, by Eastern District Judge Ann Donnelly, came four years after Ms Meng was first arrested in Vancouver in December 2018 in connection with a controversial extradition request from the United States that embroiled Canada in a dispute with China.

It is the latest step in the deal that released Ms Meng in September 2021, nearly three years after she was arrested at the behest of the United States to face fraud charges related to US sanctions against Iran.

Prosecutors had accused Ms Meng and Huawei of stealing secrets and using Skycom, a Hong Kong communications company, to sell tech equipment to Iran, despite sanctions under the Credentials Act for international emergency economies.

Two Canadian nationals, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, were arrested days later in China in an apparent act of retaliation.

Ms Meng, daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, has pleaded not guilty to all charges under the deal. In exchange, it accepted a statement of facts acknowledging, among other things, that Skycom – which it claimed is a partner of Huawei – is essentially a wholly owned subsidiary.

The agreement clarified that if she attempted to contradict or deny the testimony, which would then be permissible in a future court hearing, she would breach the agreement.

US Attorney Carolyn Pokorny submitted the request to Judge Donnelly on Thursday.

“In the absence of information that [Mme Meng] breach the terms [l’accord de poursuite suspendue] until December 1, 2022 […] the government respectfully proposes that the third substitute charge in this case be dismissed,” Ms Pokorny writes.

A draft order accompanying the motion, once approved by Judge Donnelly, will dismiss the charges “with prejudice,” which would prevent prosecutors from reopening the case.

MM. Spavor and Kovrig, known around the world as “the two Michaels”, left China almost at the same time as Ms. Meng was repatriated to China.

China has long denied any link between the two cases, despite the timing of the initial arrests and their subsequent release.