According to the San Jose Courier, Huawei's former employee Jesse Hong entered the High Court of Santa Clara County in California last month. Hong claimed to be Huawei's subsidiary in Santa Clara in 2014. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Futurewei Technologies) software designer, but was fired in March this year.
Hong said in the lawsuit that in 2016, Huawei instructed two employees of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. to mix into the annual 'TIP Summit' with a false identity. The summit of hundreds of communication companies was sponsored by Facebook, on Facebook. Menlo Park headquarters is held.
In the lawsuit, Huawei applied to participate in the closed-door meeting of many American companies, but it was rejected by Facebook. Then there was an incident in which Huawei planned employees to enter the venue with fake identity.
Hong said in the lawsuit that Huawei first ordered him and two other employees of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. to sign up for the meeting in the name of a false US company. Hong said in the lawsuit that he refused to participate.
Therefore, Huawei arranged for a manager of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and another employee to use the 'covering' US company name 'registration registration' and mix it into the TIP summit.
Hong said in the lawsuit that after Mr. Chen and another employee attended the summit, Huawei wrote a report listing the business plans of Huawei's competitors and sending them back to Huawei's China headquarters.
Hong believes that it is illegal to steal trade secrets and/or send such confidential information back to Huawei in China.
Hong accused him of being dismissed for questioning Huawei's (illegal) behavior and filed a $105 million claim with Huawei.
The Telecommunication Infrastructure Project (TIP) has more than 500 member companies, which said it is reading the content of the lawsuit, but is not willing to comment on the litigation matters. Huawei was founded by Ren Zhengfei, former engineer of the Chinese military, and is the telecom of the Chinese government and the military. As the largest contractor in the business category. As early as 2012, US Congress investigators identified the company as a threat to US security. Huawei's equipment may be used for espionage, and Huawei 'disregards the intellectual property rights of other US entities and companies'.
At present, Huawei, the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in China, is facing investigations by various US departments.
In April this year, Bloomberg quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s FBI had begun investigating Huawei’s past transaction records earlier this year to investigate whether Huawei violated the ban on selling products to Iran. Earlier, American business The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Ministry of Finance also issued an administrative subpoena to Huawei.
The U.S. Congress 'US-China Economic and Security Review Board' issued a report in April this year, accusing the Chinese authorities of supporting some companies for espionage. Named Chinese companies include Huawei, ZTE, and Lenovo.