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US Prosecutors Label Huawei a Criminal Enterprise in Sweeping Trial
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News18•21-09-2026, 16:41
US Prosecutors Label Huawei a Criminal Enterprise in Sweeping Trial
- •US prosecutors accuse Huawei of operating as a criminal enterprise for two decades, alleging theft of technology, bank deception, and Iran sanctions circumvention.
- •The trial, which began on September 9 in Brooklyn, New York, involves charges of racketeering, money laundering, fraud, sanctions violations, and trade secret theft from five US companies.
- •Huawei's defense argues that prosecutors are misrepresenting ordinary business disputes and individual employee actions as a company-wide criminal conspiracy.
- •Allegations include stealing operating-system source code from Cisco Systems and technology from T-Mobile, as well as misrepresenting business in Iran to evade US sanctions.
- •The trial is significant due to Huawei's global prominence in telecommunications and its role in the US-China technology battle, with implications for national security and trade.
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The criminal trial against Huawei began on September 9 in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, and is expected to last about three months.
US prosecutors accuse Huawei of racketeering, money laundering, bank and wire fraud, sanctions violations, obstruction, and conspiring to steal trade secrets from five US technology companies over a period from roughly 1999 to 2020.
Huawei's lawyers pleaded not guilty and argued that prosecutors were turning ordinary business disputes and isolated actions by individual employees into a company-wide criminal conspiracy.
