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In possible plea deal, accused Russian secret agent case is 'resolved'
A woman accused of being a secret agent for the Russian government has likely taken a plea deal, prosecutors indicated Monday in a court filing that said her case has been "resolved." The information was included in a filing in the case against Maria Butina. ...
How the arrest of a Huawei executive deepens the conflict between Beijing and Washington
The arrest of a prominent Chinese telecommunications executive has driven home why it will be so hard for the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to resolve its deepening conflict with China. The arrest of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies Co.'s chief financial officer, has heightened ...
Japanese woman gets six-year prison term in China for spying
A Chinese court has sentenced a Japanese woman to six years in prison for spying, a source privy to bilateral relations said Saturday. The Shanghai Intermediate People's Court, which handed down the ruling on Friday, also seized 50,000 yuan ($7,273) in assets from the 57-year-old ...
Before her dramatic arrest in Canada, few in the U.S. had heard of Meng Wanzhou. Meng, 46, is chief financial officer and deputy chairwoman of the board of Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co. She now faces extradition to the U.S. on charges of trying ...
U.S. accuses Huawei CFO of Iran sanctions cover-up; hearing adjourned to Monday
A Canadian prosecutor urged a Vancouver court to deny bail to a Chinese executive at the heart of a case that is shaking up U.S.-China relations and worrying global financial markets. Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of telecommunications giant Huawei and daughter of its ...
Trump lawyer met Russian offering 'political synergy,' special counsel reveals
U.S. prosecutors revealed Friday that a Russian offered cooperation to Donald Trump's campaign as early as 2015, declaring that the president's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen had provided "relevant" and "substantial" help to the Russia investigation. In a separate case, federal prosecutors demanded "substantial" prison time of ...
Why Huawei should worry America
Be more concerned about the company's possible involvement in espionage than its alleged violations of sanctions against Iran.
Huawei arrest another sign of Trump administration's disjointed diplomacy
When Donald Trump flew back from a summit with China in Buenos Aires, he hailed it as "amazing" and raised hopes of a breakthrough on ending a trade war. That same day, Canada was arresting a top Chinese executive on a U.S. request, enraging Beijing ...
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.'s chief financial officer was arrested as part of a U.S. investigation into an alleged scheme to use the global banking system to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran, according to people familiar with the probe. The United States has ...
'Shocking' Huawei arrest threatens to upend Trump-Xi trade truce
On the same day Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping struck a truce in the U.S.-Chinese trade war in Argentina, Canadian authorities made an arrest that now threatens to make the conflict much worse. The U.S. is seeking the extradition of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial ...
Police sent papers to prosecutors earlier this year on a Korean resident of Japan believed to be a North Korean agent for alleged fraud, investigative sources have said. Investigative authorities believe the 65-year-old man, a resident of Saitama Prefecture, could be a key figure in ...
Hackers behind a massive breach at the Marriott International hotel group left clues suggesting they were working for a Chinese government intelligence gathering operation, according to sources familiar with the matter. Marriott said last week that a hack that began four years ago had exposed ...
