US judge says China’s Huawei must face criminal case for racketeering
An American judge judged that Huawei Chinese Technologies, a leading telecommunications company, faces criminal charges in a large affair alleging that it stole the technology and engaged in racketeering, banking fraud and other crimes
Bangkok – An American judge ruled that Huawei Chinese technologies, a leading telecommunications equipment company, was to face criminal charges in a large affair alleging that it stole technology and has embarked on racketeering, fraud with sons and benches and other crimes.
The American district judge Ann Donnllly rejected Huawei’s request on Tuesday to reject the allegations in a federal act of 16 leaders against the company, affirming in a 52 -page decision that his arguments were premature.
The company did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The United States accuses Huawei and some of its conspiracy subsidiaries to steal American trade secrets, by installing surveillance equipment that allowed Iran to spy on demonstrators during anti-government demonstrations in 2009 in Iran and to do business in North Korea despite American sanctions.
During the first term of President Donald Trump, his administration raised national security problems and began to put pressure on the Western allies against Huawei’s inclusion in their wireless high -speed networks.
In its January 2019 accusation act, the Ministry of Justice accused Huawei of using a Hong Kong screen company called Skycom to sell equipment to Iran in violation of American sanctions and charged its financial director, Meng Wanzhou, fraud by deceiving the HSBC bank concerning the company’s trade relations in Iran.
Meng, the daughter of the founder of Huawei, was arrested in Canada at the end of 2018 for an American extradition request, but released in September 2021 in an exchange of high issues who released two Canadians detained by China and allowed him to return home.
Chinese officials have accused the US government of “economic intimidation” and to misuse national security as a pretext to “oppress Chinese companies”. In their request for rejection of the vast criminal affair, among other arguments, Huawei lawyers argued that American allegations were too vague and that some were “extraterritorially impermisibly” and do not involve fraud on the house and the domestic banking.
The largest network equipment manufacturer, Huawei has struggled to keep its market share under sanctions that have blocked its access to most American processors and other technologies. The limits have led him to increase his own development of computer fleas and other advanced technologies.
The company has also moved its goal on the Chinese market and to the technology network for hospitals, factories and other industrial customers and other products that are not affected by American sanctions.
