The United States Department of Justice today revealed that it had formerly charged two suspected Chinese operatives for plotting to disrupt the criminal investigation into Huawei.
, the two suspected Chinese intelligence officers attempted to bribe an employee of the U.S. government that they thought could provide them with information they could use to obstruct the U.S. criminal investigation into the Chinese-based tech company Huawei, the Justice Department says. The two are accused of paying tens of thousands of dollars in “digital currency” along with physical cash and jewelry to a U.S. official they believed they had recruited into an asset.
The defendants supposedly paid a bribe to the double agent to obtain non-public information, including files from the U.S attorney’s office in the eastern district.