Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei Technologies issued a formal statement on Tuesday denying new allegations against it involving the apparent theft of intellectual property.
The statement was a direct response to a report published by a US media outlet alleging that Huawei had stolen patents from a Portuguese inventor.
Apart from denying the allegations against it, Huawei also stated that it believes that the United States government was intentionally trying to engage in tactics to "threaten, menace, coerce, entice, and incite" its employees to turn against it.
The company proclaimed that the US has been deploying this kind of tactics for the past months, with the new report being its latest volley.
The Chinese firm also revealed that it had uncovered entrapment operations involving US law enforcement officials pretending to be Huawei employees. The officers were apparently trying to gather evidence for what the company called were "unfounded accusations."
In its latest statement, Huawei outlined nine different violations made by US officials, specifically by the FBI.
These violations include the launching cyber attacks on the company's systems and the unlawful searching, detaining, and arresting of its employees and partners. Huawei also alleged the some of their employees were visited by FBI agents, who pressured them to divulge company information.
The report in question was published late last week. The report stated that the US Department of Justice had conducted an investigation into Huawei for its apparent connection in the theft of patents involving new smartphone camera technologies developed by Portuguese inventor Rui Pedro Oliveira.
In response to the apparent accusations made by Oliveira, Huawei stated that the inventor was likely just taking advantage of the current geopolitical situation.
The incident is the latest in a long line of attacks against Huawei, which has been caught in the crossfire of the more-than year-long trade dispute between two of the world's largest economies. The trade dispute quickly trickled into the tech industry following the US' imposed trade sanctions against Huawei.
The US government had previously accused Huawei of being nothing more than a tool being used by the Chinese government to spy on other countries.
The US had also called for its allies to boycott Huawei's products, alleging that they were a security risk.
Huawei has repeatedly denied the US' accusations against it and has reiterated that their products do not pose any security threats. The company has also denied multiple accusations that it had infringed trade patents, including accusations of it stealing technologies from T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom.
