Two spies from China are busted trying to obstruct a Justice Department investigation of Huawei
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The two Chinese spies arrested by the U.S. are named Guochum He and Zheng Wang. Both are charged with working with the Chinese government in an effort to steal files and other information from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. The files are related to an “ongoing federal criminal investigation and prosecution of a global telecommunications company (Company-1) based in the PRC (People’s Republic of China) believed to be Huawei according to The Wall Street Journal.
Wang faces 20 years in prison while He could end up imprisoned for as many as 40 years
The two defendants, according to the complaint, are intelligence officers (read spies) for the PRC. According to the DOJ, “The charges in the complaint are allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. If convicted, Dong He faces up to 40 years of imprisonment and Wang faces up to 20 years of imprisonment.”
Eventually, T-Mobile was awarded $4.8 million by a jury who heard the whole tale of Tappy and Huawei’s brazen attempt to steal T-Mobile’s technology and accompany it to China. After the verdict was announced, Huawei executive William Plummer said, “Huawei continues to believe in the merits of its defense to the allegations made by T-Mobile. According to the jury’s verdict, T-Mobile was not awarded any damages relating to the trade secrets claim and there was no award of punitive damages.”
