The racketeering conspiracy case against Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. opened in New York on Wednesday, with federal prosecutors leveling a litany of accusations against the Chinese tech company, encompassing the theft of American corporate technology, the abuse of the U.S. financial system, and assistance to Iran in surveilling its own citizens.
针对华为技术有限公司的敲诈勒索共谋案于周三在纽约开庭审理,联邦检察官对该中国科技公司提出一系列指控,涵盖窃取美国企业技术、滥用美国金融体系,以及协助伊朗监控其本国公民等行为。
However, defense attorney Brian Heberlig rejected these allegations, asserting that the prosecution was merely citing isolated anecdotes and the misconduct of a handful of individuals among Huawei's roughly 200,000 employees across 170 countries in an attempt to portray the company and its three subsidiaries as a corrupt criminal enterprise.
然而,辩护律师布莱恩·赫伯利格对这些指控予以驳斥,声称检方不过是援引零星轶事,以及华为遍布全球170个国家约20万名员工中少数个体的若干不当行为,便试图将该企业及其三家子公司刻画为一个腐败的犯罪集团。
The first witness called by the prosecution was Parham Bakhshti.
检方传唤的首位证人为帕勒姆·巴赫什提。
He grew up in Iran from an early age, later traveled to the United States to pursue his studies, and was naturalized as an American citizen in 2000.
他自幼在伊朗成长,后远赴美国求学,并于2000年归化为美国公民。
In 2003, Bakhshti moved back to Iran in order to be closer to his wife's family.
2003年,巴赫什提迁回伊朗,以便与妻子的家人更为邻近。
He testified that in 2009, while employed at a small yet rapidly growing enterprise dedicated to bringing the internet to remote corners of Iran, he first learned of Huawei, and thereafter provided the U.S. government with confidential information concerning his dealings with the company.
他作证称,2009年,他在一家规模虽小却发展迅猛、致力于将互联网引入伊朗偏远角落的企业任职期间初次获悉华为,此后便向美国政府提供了有关其与华为往来的机密信息。
In his opening statement, Haberlig declared to the jurors that they would inevitably see through the unreliable witnesses for the prosecution to whom he was referring, and would conclude that "the government's case simply does not hold up."
赫伯利格于开场陈述中向陪审员宣称,他们必将识破他所指称的检方不可靠证人,并会认定“政府的说法根本站不住脚”。
He went on to say that they would find that some of the testimony against the company was motivated by "old grudges."
他继而表示,他们会发现,针对该公司的一些证词乃是出于“旧怨”。
He scoffed at the prosecution's plan to present evidence in court purporting to show that a Huawei employee had photographed a rival company's products during a trade show event.
他讥讽检方拟于庭上呈证,以证明一名华为员工在贸易展活动期间拍摄了竞争对手公司的产品。
He went on to point out that the government had omitted to mention that Huawei had promptly dismissed the employee over this "foolish act."
他继而指出,政府方面未曾提及,华为已因这一“愚蠢行为”迅即将该员工解雇。
Herbellig pointed out that this act was not evidence of a "company-wide conspiracy."
赫伯利格指出,此举并非“全公司共谋”之佐证。
He attributed Huawei's remarkable growth to its outstanding achievements in engineering, investment, innovation, and competition.
他将华为令人瞩目的增长归功于其在工程、投资、创新与竞争诸领域所取得的卓越成就。
Although Huawei is renowned for manufacturing smartphones and other consumer electronics, that business has become detached from its other operations.
华为虽以智能手机及其他消费电子产品的生产见长,却已与其其余业务线割裂。
Recently, propelled by the demand for microprocessors generated by the artificial-intelligence boom, Huawei has expanded its business footprint into chip manufacturing.
近期,在人工智能热潮所催生的微处理器需求推动下,华为已将业务版图拓展至芯片制造领域。
During President Donald Trump's first term, his administration had already raised national security concerns regarding Huawei and set about lobbying Western allies in a determined effort to prevent them from incorporating Huawei products into next-generation high-speed wireless networks.
在唐纳德·特朗普总统首个任期内,其政府便已就华为提出国家安全层面的关切,并着手游说西方盟友,力阻其将华为产品纳入下一代高速无线网络。
The relevant criminal charges were unveiled by the United States in early 2019, and the scope of those charges has since been broadened still further.
相关刑事指控于2019年初由美方予以公布,此后其指控范围又进一步扩大。