US trial against China's Huawei opens with prosecutor calling the company a criminal enterprise
Prosecutors say the Chinese telecom giant used theft and sanctions evasion for 20 years, while Huawei calls the case competition, not conspiracy.
- On Wednesday, The United States opened a criminal trial against Huawei in Brooklyn federal court, where prosecutors allege two decades of theft, fraud, and racketeering by the world's largest telecom equipment maker.
- Prosecutors allege Huawei stole trade secrets from five American companies including Cisco Systems and T-Mobile, citing router source code and a robotic testing device known as Tappy, alongside bank fraud and Iranian sanctions violations.
- Defense attorney Brian Heberlig told the jury the case is "about competition, not conspiracy," arguing alleged misconduct involved individual employees rather than a systematic criminal enterprise framing actions as "ordinary business dealings."
- The trial is expected to run three months, and a judge ruled that admissions made by former executive Meng Wanzhou remain admissible against Huawei in the proceeding.
- While Huawei has been designed out of most Western networks, the proceedings serve as a legal test of past actions, where a conviction could supply a finding of fact tested in open court rather than intelligence assessment.
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US trial against China's Huawei opens with prosecutor calling the company a criminal enterprise
A U.S. prosecutor described China's Huawei as a criminal enterprise that stole from American companies to build its telecommunications empire, as the trial against the tech giant kicked off in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday.
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Huawei’s US racketeering trial opens with prosecutors calling it a criminal enterprise
The United States opened its criminal case against Huawei in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday, with a prosecutor describing two decades of conduct by the world’s largest telecoms equipment maker as theft, lies and cover-up. “Theft, lies, cover-up. For 20 years, that’s how Huawei victimized American companies,” said Taylor Stout, a Justice Department trial attorney, according […] This story continues at The Next Web
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