After ZTE, Huawei being probed by FBI for violating Iran sanctions

Earlier this month, the Commerce Department banned ZTE, China's second-biggest network equipment maker, from buying US-made components as punishment for violating a sanctions settlement

The US Justice Department has joined two other agencies probing Huawei Technologies Co. for possible violations of sanctions banning sales to Iran, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is overseen by the Justice Department, have been looking into transactions by the Shenzhen, China-based mobile and telecommunications giant, the people said. According to one of them, the criminal inquiry grew out of an earlier sanctions-violation probe that ultimately led to penalties against another Chinese technology company, ZTE Corp.

The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, which enforces sanctions, and