--- title: Taiwan seeks arrest of OnePlus CEO | daily.dev description: Taiwanese prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for OnePlus CEO Pete Lau, alleging illegal business operations and recruitment of over 70 employees in Taiwan... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/taiwan-seeks-arrest-of-oneplus-ceo-q3lxozrtf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Taiwan seeks arrest of OnePlus CEO | daily.dev og:description: Taiwanese prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for OnePlus CEO Pete Lau, alleging illegal business operations and recruitment of over 70 employees in Taiwan... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/taiwan-seeks-arrest-of-oneplus-ceo-q3lxozrtf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/q3lXoZrtf.png og:image:alt: Taiwan seeks arrest of OnePlus CEO og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Taiwan seeks arrest of OnePlus CEO **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 2 min read · 115 upvotes · 16 comments ## Summary Taiwanese prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for OnePlus CEO Pete Lau, alleging illegal business operations and recruitment of over 70 employees in Taiwan for smartphone software development. The case falls under Taiwanese law governing relations with China. Taiwan has been cracking down on Chinese companies allegedly poaching tech talent through shell companies and hiring agencies, with 16 Chinese firms under investigation as of August 2025 for similar activities. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@daniellrein** · 5 upvotes > So poaching is illegal. **@byteoutlaw** · 3 upvotes > The tech war must go on! 🙃 **@tiejungao** · 1 upvotes > WTF, I don't understand. Smart phone apps, not AI, not chips, what's the big deal? But I am sure more than 70 employees in Taiwan will lose their jobs. **@harshaj99** · 0 upvotes > What?? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Taiwan is investigating 17 Chinese firms for poaching its chip talent](https://daily.dev/posts/taiwan-is-investigating-17-chinese-firms-for-poaching-its-chip-talent-pdiabpwq8) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Taiwan detains an Nvidia employee as its chip-smuggling probe reaches the chipmaker](https://daily.dev/posts/taiwan-detains-an-nvidia-employee-as-its-chip-smuggling-probe-reaches-the-chipmaker-ixe0yxreo) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 2 comments - [Phone maker OnePlus says it won’t release new phones in the U.S. and Europe](https://daily.dev/posts/phone-maker-oneplus-says-it-won-t-release-new-phones-in-the-u-s-and-europe-hjrfvl7vs) · TechCrunch · 36 upvotes · 3 comments - [Intel says star hire from TSMC didn’t steal secrets](https://daily.dev/posts/intel-says-star-hire-from-tsmc-didn-t-steal-secrets-nw4xsawel) · The Verge · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news), [#mobile](https://daily.dev/tags/mobile) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/taiwan-seeks-arrest-of-oneplus-ceo-q3lxozrtf) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Taiwan seeks arrest of OnePlus CEO","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/taiwan-seeks-arrest-of-oneplus-ceo-q3lxozrtf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/taiwan-seeks-arrest-of-oneplus-ceo-q3lxozrtf"},"datePublished":"2026-01-14T04:48:47.769Z","dateModified":"2026-01-14T04:49:07.669Z","description":"Taiwanese prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for OnePlus CEO Pete Lau, alleging illegal business operations and recruitment of over 70 employees in Taiwan...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5a00bf4ccc39f6df9c122e8a48ee0c95?_a=AQAEulh","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5a00bf4ccc39f6df9c122e8a48ee0c95?_a=AQAEulh","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"TechCentral","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TechCentral","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--RsqLDZrL--/f_auto/v1717745297/logos/techcentral","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral"},"commentCount":16,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/taiwan-seeks-arrest-of-oneplus-ceo-q3lxozrtf","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":115},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":16}],"keywords":"tech-news,mobile","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TechCentral","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Taiwan seeks arrest of OnePlus CEO"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/taiwan-seeks-arrest-of-oneplus-ceo-q3lxozrtf","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"So poaching is illegal.","datePublished":"2026-01-15T08:56:22.019Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/q3lXoZrtf#c-NqcbsRpHU","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniell Rein","url":"https://daily.dev/daniellrein","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocJ1LIGOtNd-VVRV7IO_3cky7kF5auLJ7q4Wuew49bhrxSjsbPVq=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"The tech war must go on! 🙃","datePublished":"2026-01-14T13:11:08.004Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/q3lXoZrtf#c-OiD2OkAKB","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Jacob B. 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But I am sure more than 70 employees in Taiwan will lose their jobs.","datePublished":"2026-01-21T05:11:10.180Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/q3lXoZrtf#c-H569WcQzg","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Tiejun Gao","url":"https://daily.dev/tiejungao","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocJL9EBrFn2lE_AnnTy5pz8a1iW7ttLJun4MpGQh9C9UJECAHJE=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"What??","datePublished":"2026-02-20T06:35:02.308Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/q3lXoZrtf#c-Yig7ZLAJk","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Harsha Lakshan Jayathissa","url":"https://daily.dev/harshaj99","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/112598753?v=4"}}]} ```