Huawei employee arrested, accused of “high-level espionage” for China
A Huawei employee was arrested in Poland on Tuesday and charged with spying for China, according to numerous media reports.
"Polish authorities detained and charged a local sales director of Huawei Technologies Co., a Chinese national, with conducting high-level espionage on behalf of China," The Wall Street Journal wrote today. Huawei is a large maker of smartphones and telecommunications equipment.
Poland also arrested a Polish man "who [formerly] held several top government cybersecurity positions," the Associated Press reported. "Polish security agents searched the Warsaw offices of Huawei and Orange, Poland’s leading communications provider, where the former Polish security expert recently worked, seizing documents and electronic data," the AP wrote. "The homes of both men, also in Warsaw, were also searched, according to [Internal Security Agency] spokesman Stanislaw Zaryn."
