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Polish Police Arrest Huawei Executive On Suspicion Of Spying For China (npr.org)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the growing-tension dept.

A Huawei executive has been arrested in Poland on charges of spying for China, Poland's counterintelligence service said Friday. NPR reports: A government spokesman identified the suspect as Weijing W.; media reports in Poland and China say he also is known as Stanislaw Wang, Huawei's sales director in Poland. In a coordinated arrest Tuesday, authorities also detained and charged a Polish citizen named Piotr D. who works for the telecom company Orange Polska. He is a former Internal Security Agency official, according to Poland's TVP Info, which first reported the story. Police searched both of the suspects' homes Tuesday. In addition, TVP Info says, Internal Security Agency officers searched Huawei's headquarters in Poland and an Orange office where Piotr D. worked. The government has evidence that the two suspects "cooperated with the Chinese services" as they conducted espionage against Poland, according to Stanislaw Zaryn, spokesman for the special services branch, in a tweet about the case.

3 of 56 comments (clear)

  1. Again? by rmdingler · · Score: 2
    Mostl reasonably advanced nations use (and misuse) cozy relationships with domestic corporations to advance the agendas of their homegrown information gathering services.

    Still, those with totalitarian powers are much more ripe for pervasive abuse.

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  2. Another vassal; anything to slow HUAWEI... by bogaboga · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Polish Police Arrest Huawei Executive On Suspicion Of Spying For China

    They are trying everything to slow down Huawei. They will fail in my opinion as Huawei is a major 5G patent holder.

    1. Re:Another vassal; anything to slow HUAWEI... by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Polish Police Arrest Huawei Executive On Suspicion Of Spying For China

      They are trying everything to slow down Huawei. They will fail in my opinion as Huawei is a major 5G patent holder.

      Hmm, an alternative possibility is that they have "evidence that the two suspects "cooperated with the Chinese services" as they conducted espionage against Poland" and it's legit.

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