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Huawei has an office in the Netherlands. Huawei's vice president,

Feb. 5, 2019 by Elizabeth Duran

Huawei has an office in the Netherlands. Huawei's vice president, Rachael Gelfand, declined to comment on the charge.

"I don't know when Huawei products are ready. It's not a surprise for us. It's a surprise for the Netherlands that Huawei products are still available there," Gelfand said.

Huawei said it would not comment on the charges.

The investigation was conducted by the Dutch National Anti-Corruption Unit (NACU), an investigative agency. The arrest comes on the heels of a report that Huawei had hired a former U.S. lawyer in London to conduct a sting operation against Huawei's Netherlands customers. The U.S. Justice Department also said in a July 23 report that Huawei had been involved in an "unauthorized" "whistleblower" campaign using "legal and diplomatic channels to obtain sensitive documents to facilitate the government's internal defense."

It said Huawei "violated United Kingdom and European Union law" by taking advantage of a loophole in the U.K.'s anti-cybercrime laws that allows the government to use such "indirectly collected information regarding its own customers to pursue targeted indictments against those customers."

Huawei and other Huawei employees have denied the allegations in the Dutch report.

On one hand, Huawei said it does not know how China had obtained the documents. The company said it had also not received any "indirectly collected information" from Huawei.

Huawei spokeswoman Tia Liu said that a "new international investigation" was under way.

In a statement released earlier this week, the company said it had received an e-mail from a Romanian firm that the Dutch prosecutor's office had interviewed, and that the charges were "a blatant violation of the law."BENGALURU: India will not be able to compete against China on the world stage if it is not able to find a way to stop them from taking over the Indian space programme for the first time when it opens the 2019-2022 lunar and planetary missions, the Union Home Minister said yesterday.The space race between India and China is on the verge of a massive political brawl, with both sides accusing each other of trying to get a political settlement over the issue with one side saying their interests were to win and the other saying the other should keep on making its case.Meanwhile, the two governments have yet to agree on how to deal with each other's long-standing disagreement over the future of the Indian space programme, as