Report: DOJ pursue criminal charges against Huawei for tech theft

Due to civil sued by T-Mobile and other telecommunications companies against the Chinese network and telecommunications company Huawei, the US Department of Justice is conducting a criminal investigation of the company. According to a report by Wall Street Journal DOJ is close to filing charges against Huawei for business secrets, including the technology used in a robot developed by T-Mobile to test smartphones.

The Rapport comes a week after an employee at Huawei was arrested in Poland for espionage tax. And Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada in December based on US allegations that she was responsible for violating US sanctions against Iran. In November, the US government began pushing allies to ban Huawei's network hardware from their telecommunication systems over espionage.

Huawei has long been suspected of taking advantage of Chinese economic espionage and forced transfer of technologies from foreign companies operating in China. Over ten years ago, Cisco sued Huawei to steal the routing software source code and incorporate it into Huawei network products. In 2012, Huawei leaders claimed that the offensive code had come from a third party and was freely available on the Internet, Cisco's executive director Mark Chandler denied strongly.

In the recent civil case, originally filed in 2014, a jury in Seattle found that Huawei had stolen robotics from a T-Mobile lab. Huawei had used the access by being a handset provider to get copies of the robot's specifications and steal software, parts, and business secrets from the lab. According to T-Mobile's original filing case, Huawei attempted to cover their actions but eventually admitted that its employees misappropriated parts and information about T-Mobile's robot in coordination with Huawei R&D so that Huawei could build and improve their own testing robot ".