Cnex Labs — a developer of solid state drive (SSD) controllers backed by the likes of Dell Technologies, Microsoft, and Sierra Ventures — is accusing a top Huawei executive, deputy chairman Eric Xu, of conspiring to steal its trade secrets. The Wall Street Journal reported this on Wednesday citing court documents.

The allegations were made in a suit set for trial on the 3rd of June in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas. Cnex — whose co-founder Ronnie Huang formerly worked at Huawei — is alleging Huawei enlisted a Chinese university professor working on a research project to inappropriately access its technology. This is response to a suit filed by Huawei against the startup in 2017, accusing it of stealing Huawei trade secrets and poaching its employees.

Huawei Deputy Chairman Eric Xu image: Huawei

Huawei has called the allegations against Xu “groundless”in a statement on Thursday. This lawsuit occurs amid hiccups for the company stemming from a ban that led U.S. tech giants like Intel, Xilinx, Broadcom, and Google — to halt supplies and services provided to the company. Huawei has also been barred from membership at the SD Association, meaning it can’t make use of microSD cards in its future devices.

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