A former employee who had worked for Huawei for more than 10 years had been detained for 8 months after being charged with blackmailing because he got a severance package of 300,000 yuan ($42,700) for leaving the company.
According to a report by Sina Tech on Sunday, the employee, named Li Hongyuan, joined Huawei as an engineer since 2005 and worked in the inverter sales management department before leaving on January 31, 2018.
Upon his termination after working for Huawei for 13 years, Li Hongyuan negotiated with Huawei to obtain an economic compensation of 331776.73 yuan. He finally got about 300,000 yuan after deducting about 30,000 yuan in taxes.
The compensation was transferred by the department head through the personal bank account of the department secretary, and the memorandum of transaction was "economic compensation for termination".
However, in December 2018, Li Hongyuan was detained in Shenzhen after Huawei sued him for "suspected extortion." The evidence is the transfer record of 300,000 yuan in the personal account of the department secretary.
In August 2019, prosecutors in Shenzhen decided that the facts of the crime were unclear, the evidence was insufficient, and it did not meet the conditions for prosecution. It decided not to prosecute Li Hongyuan and he was free again.
There is no official response from Huawei at this time.
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