{"id":30964,"date":"2019-01-28T23:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T23:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30964"},"modified":"2019-01-28T23:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T23:22:52","slug":"us-charges-chinas-huawei-top-executive-with-bank-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30964","title":{"rendered":"US charges China&#8217;s Huawei, top executive with bank fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"96\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges on Monday against Chinese tech giant Huawei, two of its subsidiaries and a top executive, who are accused of misleading banks about the company&#8217;s business and violating US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The company is also charged in a separate case with stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile, according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Prosecutors are seeking to extradite the company&#8217;s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, and allege she committed fraud by misleading banks about Huawei&#8217;s business dealings in Iran. She was arrested on December 1 in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>US prosecutors accused Huawei of using a Hong Kong shell company to sell equipment in Iran in violation of US sanctions. Huawei had done business in Iran through a Hong Kong company called Skycom and alleged that Meng mislead US banks into believing the two companies were separate, according to the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei is the world&#8217;s biggest supplier of network gear used by phone and internet companies and has long been seen as a front for spying by the Chinese military or security services.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors also allege that Huawei stole trade secrets, including the technology behind a robotic device that T-Mobile used to test smartphones, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>A jury in Seattle ruled that Huawei had misappropriated the robotic technology from T-Mobile&#8217;s lab in Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>The Huawei case has set off a diplomatic spat with the three countries, which has threatened to complicate ties between the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump said he would get involved in the Huawei case if it would help produce a trade agreement with China and told Reuters news agency in an interview in December that he would &#8220;intervene if I thought it was necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges on Monday against Chinese tech giant Huawei, two of its subsidiaries and a top executive, who are accused of misleading banks about the company&#8217;s business and violating US sanctions. The company is also charged in a separate case with stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile, according to federal prosecutors. Prosecutors&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}