Stefan Mileschin

Playing dirty claims the company

China’s Huawei Technologies said the US government had instructed law enforcement to “coerce” and “entice” its employees to turn against the company.



Huawei said the US government was using its judicial and administrative powers as well as other means to disrupt its business and that of its partners.

Huawei said in its public statement that staff and Huawei partners were subjected to unlawful searches, detention and arrest while FBI agents visited some employees at their homes and pressured to collect information on the company.

According to the Huawei document, eight employees, several of them U.S. citizens, were involved in the incidents. All of them are mid- to high-level executives. The latest incident happened on 28 August when an employee from Huawei’s U.S. office informed the company of a visit from the FBI asking the person to be an informant.

A Justice Department spokesman said that while they do not comment on specific investigations, “in all matters, our investigative techniques comply with the law and all subjects of investigations enjoy the same rights to due process afforded by our Constitution and safeguarded by an independent judiciary.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China opposed US moves to target a specific company without providing any evidence.

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