China's Huawei reportedly targeted in US criminal investigation.

China’s president, Xi Jinping, is shown around Huawei’s London
offices by the company’s boss, Ren Zhengfei.
Huawei says it settled disputes with T-Mobile in 2017.
Photograph: Reuters

DoJ said to be in ‘advanced’ stages of inquiry over alleged theft of trade secrets.

Huawei has stated that a dispute with T-Mobile was settled in 2017 after a report said US authorities had opened a criminal investigation into the Chinese telecommunications company.

The US justice department (DoJ) was, according to the Wall Street Journal which cited anonymous sources, in the “advanced” stages of a criminal inquiry that could result in an indictment of Huawei.

The newspaper said the DoJ was looking into allegations of theft of trade secrets from Huawei’s US business partners, including a T-Mobile robotic device used to test smartphones.

By Agence France-Presse.

Full story at The Guardian.