Washington: With a total 23 criminal charges against the world's biggest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment Huawei, the US department of Justice has unsealed two accusitions including trading secrets and defrauding banks to elude US sanctions.
Company's CFO (Chief Chief Financial Officer) Meng Wanzhou has been accused of stealing trade secrets and sanctions violations, said Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker in a press conference.
Kirstjen Nielsen, the US homeland security secretary said that Huawei had operated a scheme that had been “detrimental to the security of the United States” by undermining sanctions against Iran.
The charges imposes that Huawei had also barred justice by keeping secrets about its Iranian subsidiary, and even destroying potential proofs about the fraud back to China so that the US investigators could not reach them, said the US prosecutors.