Polish public broadcaster reported (January 11) that Poland's counter-intelligence service has arrested Weijing Wang, @ Stanislaw Wang, a Chinese Sales Director of tech giant Huawei and a Polish former senior intelligence agent in Warsaw on suspicion of spying. Officers of Poland’s counterintelligence agency searched the Huawei office, leaving with documents and electronic data, as well as the home of the Chinese national. If convicted the two could face up to 10 years in prison. Huawei confirmed the arrest, without giving more information. Poland is Huawei’s headquarters for central and eastern Europe and the Nordic region. It also has a joint innovation centre specialising in supercomputing in the country. In Poland, Huawei is one of the top sellers of smartphones and supplies equipment for the country’s 5G network via Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-mobile Poland. It also teamed up with Orange Polska on urban 5G testing in Poland.

(Comment: Weijing Wang is a Polish language graduate of Beijing Foreign Studies University and has been identified as a graduate of one of China’s top intelligence schools . From 2006, he worked at the Chinese consulate in Gdansk before starting work at Huawei in 2011 and taking over responsibility for the company’s public relations in Poland. In 2017, he was appointed sales director of Huawei’s Polish operations.)