A few weeks before officials from the US Justice Dept. announced the unsealing of indictments against China-based tech giant Huawei — indictments that included almost two dozen criminal charges against the company — FBI officials set up a sting operation in Las Vegas. CES 2019, the splashy consumer electronics show held in Sin City each year, was under way, and agents were working with US-based startup Akhan Semiconducter. Akhan makes smartphone glass coated with synthetic diamonds, and after delivering a sample to Huawei back in 2017, the glass had come back damaged — in such a way that the US company suspected Huawei was trying to copy it. As a result, it reached out to the bureau.
Enter the FBI, which joined Akhan founder Adam Khan and chief operating officer Carl Shurboff in a meeting with Huawei representatives around a table at the Las Vegas burger joint PrimeBurger, inside the food court at The Venetian.
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Details emerge of an FBI sting targeting Huawei last month at CES originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 16:26:25 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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