The phone calls of former Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende when he was in office have caused an uproar after it was revealed that they may have been tapped by the Chinese company Huawei.
The shocker! Chinese telecom leader Huawei is involved in wiretapping suspicions in the Netherlands, former Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende’s (Jan-Peter Balkenende) phone was listened to all, the French IT consultant “Capgemini” completed a secret report was hidden for 10 years, the latest by the Dutch “National Journal” ( Volkskrant revealed that Royal Dutch Telecom (Koninklijke KPN) denied being bugged, but the company had cooperated with Huawei in earlier years and soon cancelled it without explaining the reasons, and now cooperates with Western companies instead.
According to an investigation report completed in 2010, Chinese technology company Huawei tapped the phones of Dutch people, including the prime minister, but the report has never been published, the newspaper noted. The report traces back to 2010, when Royal Dutch Telecom used Huawei’s communications network, and the Dutch side hired six additional Huawei employees to work at its headquarters in The Hague. During the cooperation, Huawei was able to tap the calls of KPN’s then 6.5 million customers through KPN’s network, branch Telfort’s customers, including, of course, then Prime Minister Balkenende, government ministers and opposition The report shows that Huawei may have been using its network since 2004.
The report suggests that Huawei may have had access to the information of Telfort, another Dutch mobile telecom company at the time, since 2004, which was later merged with Royal Telecom, and that KPN had used Huawei technology since 2009, not long before the Dutch Internal Intelligence Service (AIVD) issued an alert that Huawei might be engaged in espionage, and only then launched a security investigation, which was soon terminated. KPN switched to working with a Western IT company.
The secret report came to light, and Royal Dutch Telecom clarified that it found no evidence of Huawei’s eavesdropping, which Huawei also denied. KPN is now carrying out its own network maintenance work with the assistance of Sweden’s Ericsson Group and Finland’s Nokia Group. As for the Dutch security services are tight-lipped, the regulatory body Telecom Agency has started an investigation.
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