Said on Wednesday (April 19) of the US Department of Commerce of the United States.Seagate agreed to pay a fine of US $ 300 million (about S $ 400 million) and reached a settlement with the official to solve the allegations to Huawei's sales of 7.4 million US dollars worth more than 1.1 billion U.S. dollars.This is also the largest single reconciliation agreement in the history of the agency.
According to a statement issued by the Industrial Security Agency of the US Department of Commerce, the punishment measures also include a long -year compulsory audit requirements and a suspension of five years.
In 2019, the U.S. government will join Huawei to join the entity list to prohibit the company's company from conducting business with it without obtaining the government.However, Seagate has since transported 7.4 million hard disks to Huawei and became the only hard disk supplier of Huawei.
Don Graves, deputy minister of the United States, said in a statement that officials are committed to strictly implementing US export control in every corner of the world. "Without our agents and analystsThe firm commitment to justice and tireless work, today's historic action is impossible to achieve. They are making more efforts to protect our national security. "
According to Reuters, according to Reuters,Ascia believes that the company's hard disk driver in foreign countries is not bound by the US export control regulations because they are not direct products for US devices.
Seagate CEO Mosley said in a statement, "Although we believe that when we sell hard disk drivers, we comply with all relevant export control laws, but we think ... solve this problem to solve this problem(Reaching reconciliation) is the best way. "
Seagate's $ 300 million fine will pay $ 15 million per quarter in five years, and the first fine will expire in October this year.
