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The US department of justice has filed a series of criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei,two of its subsidiaries and top executive Meng Wanzhou, who are accused of misleading banks about the company’s business and violating US sanctions against Iran.
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said Huawei has been indicted on 13 criminal counts and that he is requesting that Canada extradite its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested in Vancouver on Dec. 1 on a U.S. warrant.
Meng was released on bail but has not been able to leave Canada given the expectation that Washington might ask to put her on trial. The Wall Street journal reported last April that the Justice Department was investigating Huawei for potentially violating U.S. sanctions on Iran.
Whitaker said that Huawei has been trying to steal American telecommunications technology and also lying about its relationship with its Iranian subsidiary.
The Chinese parent company claimed that it had sold its Iranian division, he said, when actually it had kept control and ownership of it.
That meant that American banks doing business with Huawei were inadvertently violating American restrictions on economic activity linked to Iran.