Long before DonaldTrump's trade war with China, Huawei's activities were secretly tracked
WASHINGTON - The surprise arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer in December quickly turned the executive, Meng Wanzhou, into a central figure in a trade war between two economic superpowers.
Long before Mr Trump initiated a bitter trade war with China, Huawei activities were under scrutiny by US authorities, according to interviews with ten people familiar with the Huawei probes and documents related to the investigations seen by Reuters. US Justice Department spokeswoman Nicole Navas Oxman said the government pursues cases"free of any political interference and follows the evidence and rule of law in pursuing criminal charges."
In the years leading up to the Huawei indictment, US officials had been capturing information that would influence the investigation when telecom executives passed through US airports, according to a number of sources familiar with the Huawei and ZTE investigations and the Meng indictment. ZTE's CFO at the time was stopped at Boston's Logan Airport after flying in from London with an assistant, the person said.
A month later, the Commerce Department sent a subpoena to Huawei in the US demanding information on the company's exporting American technology to Iran, according to a court document and one of the people familiar with the Huawei probe. The probe found Meng met in 2013 with a HSBC banker. She later gave him a copy of the PowerPoint presentation, which the US indictment says misrepresented Huawei's control of Skycom.The US Attorney's office in Washington, DC, meanwhile, pursued a more traditional export control investigation against Huawei, which included the accusations of attempted illegal shipments of computers to Iran disclosed in the Reuters 2012 story.
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