Huawei charged with racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets in the US

The company is indicted on 16 counts in all, with CFO Meng Wanzhou named as a defendant

The Huawei drama here in the 'states isn't over yet. A grand jury in the US has just charged Huawei with racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets, all among 16 charges included in its indictment. Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, still undergoing the slow process of extradition to the US from Canada, is specifically named as a defendant in the indictment.

In addition to several cases of IP theft and industrial espionage — which basically everyone knows Huawei actually did when it comes to all sorts of stuff, from diamond coatings to phone-testing robots — the indictment also alleges that Huawei concealed its involvement when it comes to projects in sanctioned countries like North Korea and Iran, obfuscating the fact that Skycom did business in the country as a subsidiary of the company, and going so far as to have internal code names for the two markets to better hide the practice.

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