{"id":28876,"date":"2019-01-12T20:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T20:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28876"},"modified":"2019-01-12T20:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T20:23:27","slug":"huawei-sacks-chinese-employee-accused-of-spying-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28876","title":{"rendered":"Huawei sacks Chinese employee accused of spying in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei has said it has terminated the employment of a Chinese worker arrested on spying allegations in Poland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wang Weijing was arrested for “personal reasons”, the company said in a statement on Saturday.\u00a0“This incident created harmful effects on Huawei’s global reputation,” the company said.<\/p>\n

Polish authorities on Friday arrested<\/a>\u00a0Weijing and a former Polish security official on spying allegations, a move that could increase Western security concerns about the telecoms equipment maker.<\/p>\n

Maciej Wasik, deputy head of Poland’s special service, said the operation that resulted in the arrest of the two suspects had been under way for a long time and was planned with care.<\/p>\n

“Both carried out espionage activities against Poland,” he said.<\/p>\n

Polish state TV\u00a0identified the arrested Pole as Piotr D, saying he was a high-ranking employee at the Internal Security Agency, Poland’s domestic counterintelligence agency, until 2011,\u00a0where he served as deputy director in the department of information security.<\/p>\n

Intense scrutiny<\/h2>\n

Huawei, the world’s biggest producer of telecoms equipment, faces intense scrutiny in the West over its relationship with the Chinese government and US-led allegations that its equipment could be used by Beijing for spying.<\/p>\n

A number of European governments and telecom companies have followed the United States<\/a> in questioning whether using Huawei for vital\u00a0mobile network\u00a0<\/span>infrastructure could open networks to spying by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n

The US blocked Huawei from operating in its territory in 2012, when a House Intelligence Committee report said it was a security risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, who is also the daughter of the company’s founder, was detained in Canada<\/a> last month on a US extradition bid.<\/p>\n

Her arrest follows US efforts to blacklist the company internationally over security concerns.<\/p>\n

In apparent retaliation, China<\/a> has since detained two Canadians – a former diplomat and a business consultant – on suspicion of endangering national security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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