Huawei found itself in the spotlight after a former employee had been detained for 8 months as he got a severance package of 300,000 yuan ($42,700) for leaving the company.
In responding to this, Huawei said Monday evening that Huawei supports the employee to use legal weapons to defend his rights, including suing Huawei.
According to CCTV, Huawei said:
Huawei has the right and the obligation to report suspected violations to the judicial authorities based on facts. We respect the decisions of the judiciary, including public security, prosecutors' offices and courts.
If Li Hongyuan thinks his rights have been damaged, we support him to use legal weapons to defend his rights, including suing Huawei. This also reflects the spirit of the rule of law in which everyone is equal before the law.
Soon after Huawei's statement was released, Li told Yicai.com that "we can wait and see first, I will listen to Chinese people's advice."
Sina Tech reported on Sunday that 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.
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