A new chapter in the Huawei case points to a manager as a possible spy. Executive Eric Xu is accused by CNEX Labs of committing theft of trade secrets.
There is a new chapter in Huawei's problem when it comes to getting after the announced embargo. The Chinese company had already been the subject of all kinds of suspicions, although no evidence has yet emerged. Now many take advantage of his vulnerability to accuse him, as CNEX Labs has done.
CNEX has started the procedure to sue a Huawei executive, Etic Xu, and as it happened before, it is an accusation of industrial espionage. This time it is an accusation directed at a specific person, so the development of the trial can change a lot with what is usual. According to the indictment, Eric would have asked his employees for information on CNEX technology.
Huawei has a new accusation of espionage
The trial is taking place right now and some details have just come out. The lawyers say that Eric was in the command position and that he asked to obtain technical information from CNEX, but that no details that could be considered espionage have been obtained. CNEX adds that Xu has been in a plot to steal a memory board from Xiamen University that was under trade secrets.
However, it is not the first lawsuit between these two companies, since Huawei has already sued the founder of CNEX, Yiren Huang, who left Huawei to start his company by recruiting former colleagues.
It is about the umpteenth demand it has, and more in perhaps the worst moment of the company with all the market compromised at the hardware and software level. It is not the biggest, but it would not be strange that more companies bet on trying to solve old problems with Huawei.
Source The Verge
