The Justice Department announced on Monday that two Chinese intelligence operatives have been accused of bribing a U.S. official for information regarding a criminal case against a Chinese-owned telecommunications company.
From American Military News:
People familiar with the matter said that company is Huawei Technologies Co., according to The Wall Street Journal. Huawei, one of the world’s biggest makers of smartphones and telecom equipment, has been frozen out of the U.S. and other Western markets in recent years over concerns that its technology could funnel data to the People’s Republic of China, which Huawei has denied. The ongoing U.S. criminal case alleges the tech giant stole intellectual property from six U.S. companies in a decades-long scheme, according to the Washington Post. The new charges suggest an official effort from China to clandestinely subvert the case after the U.S. placed dramatic sanctions on the company, which its chairman told BBC “caused a lot of damage to us.” Prosecutors unveiled their allegations Monday. They did not name Huawei, instead referring to a “global telecommunications company.”
