Huawei releases an employee accused of espionage."Fatal consequences for the company's global reputation"

"This incident had terrible consequences for Huawei's global reputation," wrote the board of the Chinese telecommunications giant in a communiqué, stipulating that the acts of Weijing W., "are not related to the company."

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- The Internal Security Agency detained a Pole and a Chinese suspected of espionage - said the deputy minister of the coordinator of special services Maciej Wąsik on Friday.At the same time, the Reuters agency said that Beijing is "very concerned" with reports of arrest in Poland on charges of the espionage of the Chinese communication group Huawei, Chinese Weijing W.

On Tuesday, the Secretary of State at the Prime Minister's office - deputy minister of the coordinator of the special services Maciej Wąsik and spokesman of the minister and spokesman of the minister Maciej Żaryn, informed the detention of the Chinese and Pole, whom the Internal Security Agency made on Tuesday.The court on Thursday decided about both men.

Both are suspected of espionage to the detriment of Poland.They are punishable by a year to 10 years in prison.According to Wąsik, the action is a considerable success of the Internal Security Agency.The case was conducted for a long time and carefully - assessed the Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.As part of the investigation, officers made the necessary procedural activities, includingSearching of suspicious apartments and securing evidence - Żaryn spokesman told PAP.They were detained in connection with information and evidence gathered by the Internal Security Agency - he explained.

Żaryn said that the detained Pole was in the past a special service officer and served as important in other public institutions, and W. is associated with the Chinese telecommunications company.According to TVP Info, which was the first unofficially informed about the detention of Weijing W. and Piotr D., Chinese worked in Huawei, and the Pole was an ABW officer and recently worked in Orange.

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Detained by ABW, Piotr D. held important functions in the Ministry of Interior and Administration, ABW and UKE

The professional biography of Piotr D. is described on the website of the Department of Information Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the UKSW, where he lectured.

Piotr D. has been dealt with in the government administration of ICT, state registers, communication systems, as well as the implementation of projects co -financed by the European Union in government administration.He held managerial positions at the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, the Internal Security Agency, and the Electronic Communication Office."He received a numerous state and departmental award for his professional activity," says the faculty.

He also took part in the implementation of the pilot system of location of emergency numbers, an integrated communication system, includingFor the needs of the Holy Father's visit to Poland and a special communication system before the Polish Presidency in the EU Council.Piotr D. is a master's degree in engineer, a graduate of applied IT and management, National Defense Academy, and Economics.

In the Internal Security Agency he was the deputy head of the ICT Safety Department and the ICT advisor of the then head of the Internal Security Agency, General Krzysztof Bondaryk.At the end of 2011, "Gazeta Wyborcza" announced that, according to its sources at the CBA and the Prosecutor General, Piotr D. was dismissed from the positions after "Andrzej M.'s detention in October, by 2010 the director of the ICT Project Center of the Ministry of Interior and Administration."

Andrzej M. was the main accused in the infoafera.As the head of the IT Project Center in the Ministry of Interior and Administration, he received multi -million bribes for setting tenders.Three years ago, M. was sentenced by the District Court in Warsaw to 4.5 years in prison suspended for 8 years.

In the year of disclosure of the Infoafer, ABW organized a press conference on the mobile communication system of the most important people in the state.Piotr D. System was responsible for the presentation of telephones and laptops, which was to receive three and a half thousand people, among them the president and prime minister as well as heads of police and border guards.The cameras were to enable information with the following clauses: reserved and confidential.The system was to cost PLN 18 million.

During a press conference, Piotr D. explained that so far officials and the most important people in the country could use safe and reliable communication only in the office."The need to build a system has been created that gives the possibility of safe, reliable, quick communication not only voice. This system must also give modern typical managerial tools: calendar, e -mail, access to information resources" - he explained.He emphasized that after the implementation of the Catel system, government communication will gain full mobility in the country.

We asked the former deputy head of ABW Col. Mieczysław Tarnowski about the detention of a former officer of Polish special services Piotr D. - This testifies to the wrong mechanisms of the selection of people, someone overlooked something, did not take care of something, signals that this man was not trustworthy were certainly - he assessed.

"Everyone can be valued and trying, on one condition that the one who is the subject of interest is not guided by the code of honor. There are people in service and the vast majority of them are people who cannot be bought for any money. For them, betrayal of the homeland is something, which would not allow them to exist; these are patriots, "said Tarnowski.

The portal Osrozbach.pl informed on Friday that the detention of Piotr D. and Weijing W. may be related to "infiltration of the 5G system in Poland".

After the arrest of men, ABW agents searched the headquarters of the Polish branch of Huawei, the office of the Polish Orange telecommunications operator, and the office of the Office of Electronic Communications, where Piotr D. worked after leaving the ABW.

On Friday, in an interview with the Money.pl portal, UKE spokesman Martin Stysiak reported that the detainee was the director responsible for "Control of the Telecommunications Market" at the electronic communication office.He noted that Piotr D. left his position of his own will."We didn't slow down," he emphasized.At the same time, he denied information about the search of UKE by the ABW."It's media facts," he said.

ABW entered the houses of both suspects simultaneously

TVP Info said that on Tuesday morning ABW officers entered the houses of both suspects simultaneously.Counterintelligence officers also secured electronic documents and data at the headquarters of Huawei, the electronic communication office and Orange, for which Piotr D. recently worked - the station said.

Orange Polska spokesman Wojciech Jabczyński said on Friday PAP that ABW agents carried out activities on Tuesday.They consisted in the implementation of the item of one of Orange employees - he said.We have no knowledge if it has any connection with his official duties - said Jabczyński in an interview with PAP.We are available to the ABW and we are ready to provide all information that the agency will apply to the company - he assured.

A press spokesman for the Electronic Communication Office Martin Stysiakp has realized that D. worked in the office in the past, but denied that the UKE offices were controlled by ABW.Żaryn pointed out that the ABW closed investigation is supervised by the Mazovian Department of the Department of Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor's Office.

Oświadczenie w sprawie akcji ABW wydało też Huawei. "Spółka Huawei jest świadoma zaistniałej sytuacji i na bieżąco ją obserwuje. Na razie nie udzielamy komentarza w tej sprawie. Spółka Huawei przestrzega wszystkich obowiązujących praw i przepisów w krajach, w których prowadzi działalność. Ponadto od każdego swojego pracownika Spółka Huawei wymaga stosowania się do przepisów prawnych oraz zasad obowiązujących w krajach, w których firma ma swoje oddziały" - czytamy w mailu przesłanym do redakcji.

Brussels also commented on the matter.We will be in contact with the Polish authorities in order to obtain information on the arrest of suspects of Chinese and Pole's espionage - said on Friday a spokeswoman for the European Commission Maja Kocijanczicz.