Two alleged spies from China have just recently been arrested in the US for allegedly interfering with the investigation case against Huawei. The company has been designated as a national security threat in the past, so here’s all we know about this matter.

The Department of Justice announced that it had arrested two men that are believed to be working for Chinese intelligence. These men apparently tried to hinder the US investigation into the Chinese tech giant. For those unaware, the company was placed in the US Entity list back in 2019, and faced further sanctions in months that followed. It was even cut off from Google at the start and lost its primary chip supplier, TSMC, as well by the following year.

Since then, Huawei’s smartphone operations faced a crippling blow, with its latest smartphone models launching with top end Qualcomm chipsets that do only offer 4G connectivity. From being a top smartphone maker, the brand is nowhere near the top players in the market any longer. The two Chinese spies arrested by the US are Guochum He and Zheng Wang. Both of these men are being accused of working with the Chinese government and attempting to steal files and other information from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.

Notably, the files being stolen were 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.” In the list of accusations, both men were even charged with bribing 41,000 US Dollars in Bitcoin to a US government employee, who they thought was working for the PRC. However, that governemnt employee was actually a double agent for the FBI. So now, Wang faces 20 years in prison while He may face a sentence nearly twice as long, around 40 years.

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