BROOKLYN, New York — Heather Campbell was walking through a quiet sixth-floor hallway at Huawei’s Texas offices when the company’s in-house lawyer approached from the opposite direction. They had arranged to meet near the training room, where few colleagues were likely to pass.
Charles de Chateauvieux handed her an envelope. Neither said anything. The envelope changed hands, and they kept walking.
Campbell headed straight for the stairwell. She descended six flights to the parking lot, went to her car and prepared to open the envelope in private.
The scene could have come from a spy film. Campbell recalled it under oath Tuesday in Huawei’s federal racketeering trial in Brooklyn.
It was July 2013. Huawei was still building its consumer brand, but the Chinese company already rivaled Sweden’s Ericsson as the world’s largest telecommunications-equipment supplier.
In court this week, Campbell—a former Marine trained as a Mandarin Chinese linguist, then working as a corporate trainer for Huawei’s American subsidiary—recalled that de Chateauvieux had told her, with a serious look, about a document sent from Huawei’s headquarters in China.
She told jurors that “he was concerned that it was—it was basically asking our employees to steal. It was that. Asking our employees to steal company information from our competitors, and he was concerned about it. He knew that it was not right, and that’s what I recall.”
And so she asked to see the policy herself.
Her testimony goes to a...
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