The criminal charges against Huawei just keep coming in the still unresolved 2018 case against the company, although the telecommunications manufacturing giant is pleading not guilty.
New Charges Against Huawei
The 2018 case against China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., kicked off with charges of bank fraud and violating sanctions against Iran by using alleged front company Skycom Tech Co. to obtain US goods and use the international banking system to move money. The company pleaded not guilty last year, although new charges have emerged, accusing Huawei of conspiring to steal trade secrets from six US tech companies over the span of twenty-ish years, as well as lying about its business in North Korea and helping Iran in tracking protesters in the 2009 anti-government demonstrations.
The company’s US lawyer Thomas Green pleaded not guilty on behalf of the Chinese giant and three subsidiaries at an arraignment in a US District Court in Brooklyn.
“Our efforts here at defending our client have become more complicated because of this virus,” Green said, noting that the novel coronavirus outbreak may delay the case as company lawyers have no way to return to China.
The company called out the new charges, saying their sole reason for being is to damage Huawei’s reputation for competitive reasons, calling the alleged trade secret thefts “ a contrived repackaging of a handful of civil allegations that are almost 20 years old.
The US has been waging war on Huawei the past several years, banning US suppliers from doing business with the company without approval due to fear that the equipment is used to spy on people by the Chinese government.
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