Huawei freezes orders from Japan supplier after CFO Meng Wanzhou's arrest

Meng was arrested in Vancouver at the request of US authorities for allegedly violating sanctions related to selling technology to Iran

The surprise arrest of Huawei Technologies Co.’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou is about to impact one of the Chinese company’s suppliers in Japan.

Yaskawa Electric Corp., which supplies industrial robots for Huawei’s smartphone and telecom gear factories, saw all orders for its machines put on hold after the arrest, President Hiroshi Ogasawara said in an interview on Wednesday. Of Yaskawa’s 448.5 billion yen ($4 billion) in revenue for the fiscal year that ended in February, 23 percent came from China.

“My people on the ground in China say that Huawei is turned upside down internally,” Ogasawara said. “All kinds of capex