Canadian authorities arrested the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies over the weekend as part of a U.S. probe into whether the Chinese telecommunications giant violated sanctions against Iran.

Huawei’s Wanzhou Meng, who is also the daughter of billionaire founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested Saturday at the request of American officials, the Globe and Mail reported Wednesday.

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