Huawei goes on trial in New York over racketeering and trade-secret charges
Jury selection opened on Tuesday in a New York criminal case against Huawei Technologies. The Associated Press wrote that the company is accused of stealing technology and trade secrets, wire and bank fraud, doing business in North Korea, and installing equipment that helped Iran monitor protesters in 2009. The South China Morning Post reported that Huawei pleaded not guilty to all 14 counts.
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Jury selection opened Tuesday in Brooklyn before Judge Donnelly
The Associated Press wrote that jury selection has opened in a US criminal case against Huawei Technologies in New York. The South China Morning Post reported that the Chinese tech giant went on trial on Tuesday in Brooklyn after eight years of legal wrangling with the US government, and that jury selection began before US District Judge Ann M. Donnelly of the Eastern District of New York. The Post wrote that the Shenzhen-based company has pleaded not guilty to all 14 counts, including bank fraud, wire fraud and trade secret theft.[1], [2]
Prosecutors listed Skycom, Iran, North Korea and 2009 surveillance claims
According to the Associated Press, the case accuses Huawei of stealing technology and trade secrets, wire and bank fraud, doing business in North Korea despite US sanctions, and installing equipment that helped Iran monitor protesters in 2009. Prosecutors say the company used a Hong Kong shell firm, Skycom, to sell equipment to Iran in breach of US sanctions. The US announced the charges in early 2019 and has expanded them since. The South China Morning Post wrote that federal prosecutors said Huawei carried out a decades-long racketeering scheme to grow its worldwide business.[1], [2]
Meng was released in a 2021 swap; Beijing calls the case economic bullying
The Associated Press wrote that chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was charged with misleading HSBC about the Iran business. She was arrested in Canada in late 2018 on a US extradition request and released in September 2021 in a swap that freed two Canadians held by China. Huawei's lawyers sought dismissal, arguing the allegations were too vague, that some reached impermissibly beyond US territory, and that they did not involve domestic wire and bank fraud. Chinese officials have called the US approach economic bullying that uses national security as a pretext.[1]
