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 to Reuters.
Brian Heberlig, for Huawei, told the jury the case is:
“about competition, not conspiracy. Innovation, not theft. Ordinary business dealings, not criminal conduct.”
The indictment covers bank fraud, sanctions violations and racketeering, alongside allegations that Huawei stole trade secrets from five American companies including Cisco Systems and T-Mobile.
Prosecutors point to operating system source code taken from Cisco routers and a robotic phone-testing device at T-Mobile. The defence says those were the acts of individual employees and that management put things right on discovering them.
The trade secret allegations are also...
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