The US Department of Justice and the FBI have charged several companies with Huawei, including extortion and conspiracy to steal trade secrets from six US companies.
According to the Arab Technical News, the accusations are a major escalation of the lawsuit, which began last year against the Chinese telecom giant.
Huawei and its subsidiaries have been accused of using fraud and deception to misuse advanced technology from their counterparts in the United States, and the new charges allege that the company offers rewards to employees, who have obtained classified information from its competitors.
The new charge sheet adds to the previous list of two charges filed by the US government last year, including violating US sanctions on Iran and stealing technology called Tappy from T-Mobile used to test the durability of a smartphone.
This development is the most recent step by the administration of US President Donald Trump in its year-long war against network equipment manufacturer, which it considers a threat to national security.
6 trade secrets
According to the non-confidential federal indictment, the misappropriated intellectual property contained trade secret information and copyrighted works, such as source code, user guides for routers, Antenna technology, and test robot technology.
Prosecutors said: The alleged theft enabled Huawei to illegally obtain non-public technology related to the source code of the Internet router, cellular antenna technology and robots, giving the company an unfair competitive advantage.
Although the six US companies were not mentioned in the indictment, the companies concerned are suspected to be Cisco Systems, Motorola Solutions, Fujitsu, Quintel Technology, T-Mobile, and CNEX Labs.
The report also accuses Huawei of doing business with countries subject to sanctions by the United States, the European Union and the United Nations, including Iran and North Korea, as well as trying to hide their participation, and alleges that Huawei used symbolic names for these countries, such as A2 for Iran and A9 for North Korea.
For its part, Huawei denied all of these accusations, and said: The new indictment is part of the Ministry of Justice's attempt to seriously damage Huawei's reputation and business for competition-related reasons rather than law enforcement.
The new accusations against Huawei come days after the Wall Street Journal published a report indicating that US officials have evidence of the company using rear doors to allow it to secretly access sensitive and personal information.
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