Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei was charged with a series of crimes by the U.S. on Monday, escalating hostilities between the world’s biggest economic powers.
The US Justice Department said Huawei had based its global expansion on “lies and deceit”. Matthew Whitaker, the acting attorney general said criminal offending at Huawei went “all the way to the top of the company.”
Grand juries in Seattle and New York had issued indictments on 23 criminal charges including stealing trade secrets, laundering money and defrauding banks to elude US sanctions.