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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.