Industry
Telecommunications
6 organizations and 20 assessed claims in telecommunications.
Organizations
- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.China. 3 claims, 1 cases.
- MTN Group LimitedSouth Africa. 4 claims, 2 cases.
- Telefonaktiebolaget LM EricssonSweden. 3 claims, 3 cases.
- Telia Company ABSweden. 3 claims, 3 cases.
- VEON Ltd.United Arab Emirates. 3 claims, 1 cases.
- ZTE CorporationChina. 4 claims, 2 cases.
Claims
- Supported6
- Partly supported2
- Contradicted1
- Outdated5
- Unresolved5
- Opinion1
- Unresolved58Plaintiffs in US Anti-Terrorism Act suits allege that MTN paid protection money to the Taliban for the security of its towers in Afghanistan.
- Opinion52A Huawei spokesperson said in September 2026 that the company's success came from long-term investment in innovation backed by the utmost respect for intellectual property.
- Unresolved49Reuters reported in December 2025 that ZTE may pay more than US$1 billion to resolve US foreign bribery allegations.
- Unresolved56Turkcell alleges in its South African lawsuit that MTN paid bribes to South African and Iranian officials to secure its stake in Irancell.
- Outdated68The South African High Court found in November 2022 that South African courts did not have jurisdiction over Turkcell's claim against MTN and dismissed it with costs.
- Supported65MTN said the September 2023 US ruling did not mean it had lost the case or that it had violated the law.
- Partly supported66VEON said in September 2023 that it had not been targeted by US, EU or UK sanctions at any point since February 2022.
- Supported98The US Department of Justice said on 2 March 2023 that Ericsson breached its 2019 DPA and agreed to plead guilty to the deferred FCPA conspiracy charges and pay US$206,728,848.
- Outdated80DOJ said in March 2023 that Ericsson agreed to a one-year extension of its independent compliance monitor.
- Partly supported88A Reuters report in March 2022 said ZTE pleaded guilty in 2017 to illegally shipping US technology to Iran and North Korea.
- Supported73Reuters reported in March 2022 that a US judge ruled ZTE should be allowed to end its five-year probation from the 2017 plea.
- Unresolved58Ericsson said in February 2022 that its Iraq investigation could not identify that any Ericsson employee was directly involved in financing terrorist organizations.
- Supported82Swedish courts acquitted three former Telia executives of bribery over Uzbekistan in 2019, and the appeal court upheld the acquittals in February 2021.
- Unresolved73US prosecutors allege that Huawei committed bank fraud and sanctions violations tied to Iran and took part in a racketeering conspiracy that included theft of trade secrets.
- Outdated87The Justice Department announced in January 2019 that Huawei's CFO Wanzhou Meng was charged with bank fraud and wire fraud.
- Contradicted86ZTE told the US government it had disciplined the employees responsible for its earlier export violations.
- Supported95The US Department of Justice said on 21 September 2017 that Telia and its Uzbek subsidiary Coscom agreed to pay more than US$965 million over bribes paid to win business in Uzbekistan.
- Outdated87Telia said in September 2017 that the Swedish investigation was still ongoing and that the company may be subject to disgorgement proceedings in Sweden.
- Supported93The US Department of Justice said on 18 February 2016 that VimpelCom and Unitel would pay more than US$795 million in US and Dutch penalties over bribes paid in Uzbekistan.
- Outdated77DOJ said in February 2016 that VimpelCom must retain a compliance monitor for three years.