Todd linked to Huawei proposal, inquiry hears Shane Todd on a dragon boat in Singapore during an outing with friends and colleagues in 2011. This is one of a number of images featured on Shane's Facebook page. The photographs of Shane Todd have been provided by the Todd family Former colleagues of a US engineer whose death in Singapore is the subject of a high-profile inquiry have confirmed that he was involved in developing a potential project with Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, but denied it had any military applications. The body of Shane Todd was found in his apartment two days after he left a job at a Singapore government research agency, the Institute of Microelectronics (IME). His death is the subject of an official inquiry in Singapore, which was launched after the publication of a Financial Times investigation in February. This week, police have laid out the case for why they believe that his death was the result of a suicide. Next week, lawyers for his parents are due to begin presenting the reasons why they think the 31-year-old electrical engineer may have been murdered. Todd was working for IME on the development of gallium nitride (GaN), a substance with commercial and military uses ranging from light-emitting displays and mobile phone base stations to radar and satellite communications. His parents have said they believe that his death may be linked to that work. On Friday, several IME employees told the inquiry that the US engineer had been involved in a "potential project" between the IME and Huawei for the development of a GaN amplifier. Patrick Lo, a US citizen who is the agency's deputy executive director of research, said Todd drew up a proposal to Huawei for the IME to build a GaN amplifier for a fee of $1.8m. But the project did not proceed. According to Mr Lo's testimony, Todd was involved in IME's GaN research beginning in March 2011 and was later involved in talks about a project proposal for a GaN amplifier between Huawei and the IME. Huawei and IME representatives met in China on July 18 2011. Meetings were held and emails exchanged about the proposal over the following year. Todd was at a meeting on June 5 2012 between IME and Huawei about the proposal, 17 days before he left IME. He was found dead on June 24. Huawei emailed IME on July 11 2012 that its goal "in relation to GaN was "indeterminate"" and that the proposal did not move forward, said Mr Lo. He added that the IME "does not conduct classified military-related research." Yuan Li, another colleague, testified that "neither the IME nor Shane was ever involved in any sensitive or highly confidential military-related research/project or defence-related research/project with other countries." Friday's testimony capped a week in which the Singaporean authorities have sought to lay out evidence for why they believe that Todd took his own life. Lawyers acting for the Singapore government began the inquiry by revealing that the engineer had accessed on his laptop several websites on suicide and depression in the three days before his death. Singaporean authorities have also sought to answer Todd's parents" questions about why no fingerprints were taken at the scene and who had accessed an external hard drive after his death. The police said they had decided not to take any prints after finding no signs of foul play at the apartment, while a US Federal Bureau of Investigation report released this week confirmed that a senior police officer had accessed the drive as part of his investigation. After authorities staged a re-enactment on Wednesday of how they believed that Todd hanged himself, and revealed the name of a website they said the engineer had accessed, his distressed mother, Mary Todd, asked her lawyer to request an adjournment. Standing with her husband a few moments later on the steps of the courthouse, Mrs Todd said she was disappointed that the Singapore state counsel had not yet addressed the possibility of murder. Lawyers for the Todds are expected to present their case next week, with both Mary Todd and her husband Rick due to take the stand. The inquiry is expected to conclude on May 28, with a verdict likely about three weeks later.