Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker speaks Monday during an announcement of an indictment on violations including bank and wire fraud of Chinese telecommunications companies including Huawei, at the Justice Department in Washington. At left is Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and FBI Director Christopher Wray, at right. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have unsealed a 13-count indictment against the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies, alleging the company took part in a long-running scheme in which it deceived the U.S. government about its business dealings with Iran.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York alleges that Huawei, the company’s subsidiaries in the U.S. and Iran and Wanzhou Meng, the company’s chief financial officer, lied to the U.S. government and global financial institutions about Huawei’s ties to Skycom, an unofficial subsidiary in Iran.
