Lawyers for ZTE Corp have been summoned to U.S. federal court in Texas on Monday for a hearing over whether the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker violated probation in connection with an alleged conspiracy to commit visa fraud.
People walk past a ZTE Corp booth at the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai, China February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Songhave been summoned to U.S. federal court in Texas on Monday for a hearing over whether the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker violated probation in connection with an alleged conspiracy to commit visa fraud.
The alleged visa fraud stems from a 2021 case in Atlanta, Georgia. ZTE was not charged in that indictment.A former ZTE research director in New Jersey and a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology allegedly conspired to bring Chinese nationals to the United States to conduct research at ZTE between at least 2014 and 2018, according to the indictment.
The professor, Gee-Kung Chang, has pleaded not guilty. The status of the former ZTE research director, Jianjun Yu, is unclear.fell more than 12% last week after news of the hearing.
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