Justice Department charges Chinese telecom giant Huawei with fraud
by Del Quentin Wilber and David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
Jan 29, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department fired a legal broadside Monday at Chinese telecom giant Huawei, alleging in two criminal indictments that the company engaged in a long-running scheme to deceive banks and the U.S. government about its activities in Iran and tried to steal sensitive information from T-Mobile.
Federal prosecutors also charged Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the company's powerful founder, with bank and wire fraud. Meng was detained in Canada last month on a provisional arrest warrant, and the U.S. government is seeking her extradition.
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