Federal prosecutors in New York have been investigating since at least last year whether Chinese tech company Huawei Technologies Co Ltd violated US sanctions in relation to Iran, according to sources familiar with situation.
The prosecutors have been investigating alleged shipping of US-origin products to Iran and other countries in violation of US export and sanctions laws, two of the sources said on
condition of anonymity.
The probe, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, is being run out of the US Attorney’s office in Brooklyn, the sources said. John Marzulli, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, would neither confirm nor deny the existence of the investigation.
The Department of Justice in Washington declined to comment. Huawei, which makes handsets and telecommunications network equipment, said it complies with “all applicable laws and
regulations where it operates, including the applicable export control and…