we prosecutors Two Chinese nationals accused with Attempting to obstruct the prosecution of Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, as part of of wider funnel on What he called efforts to exercise illegitimate influence in United State.
The charges were brought against Chinese nationals Guchunhe and Zheng Wang in a criminal Complaint on October 20 and made public on Monday. The court documents did not mention the name of the company, but a familiar person with The investigation said they were trying to interfere with Prosecution of Huawei.
In February 2020, the Ministry of Justice announced That Huawei has been accused in Indictment canceled for Violation of the Racketeer Affected and Corrupt Organizations Act.
speaking for Can’t access Huawei right away for comment on Monday.
Prosecution also The charges exposed against Four Chinese citizens in What they call long-term intelligence campaign.
complaint against He and Wang claim that they tried to get a secret information Regarding witnesses and evidence of the trial and any possibility new The company can charge face.
To do this, they allegedly tried to recruit someone from the US law enforcement agency who They thought that help Including a spy for China.
the recruit, who It is only referred to as “GE-1”, it was actually running as a file double agent for The United States under the supervision of the FBI, the complaint says.
Since October 2021, He and Wang have paid the recruit $14,000 plus $600 worth of jewelry, in exchange for What they thought was secret information About the Ministry of Justice investigation and criminal prosecution of The complaint said the company.
According to the complaint, he and Wang first I started trying access not public information About the Ministry of Justice investigation when the company was initially charged in 2019.
But their activity escalated in the summer of 2021, with GE-1 asked for details of Meetings with US Attorney’s Office for eastern district of New York prosecutors They were discussing preparations for Jury trial.
In response, GE-1 passed He piece of Paper that appears to be marked as classified. That page alleged to discuss a plan by federal investigators to arrest two of Company executives in China.
under conversion for On that page, he paid $41,000 to GE-1 in bitcoincomplain says.
Later the same thing yearGE-1 also passed along a second which page also Legal discusses strategyincluding use of Many cooperating witnesses in Prosecution.
