KATHMANDU: Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications company, is under scrutiny across the world, including Nepal, over concerns that the company’s technology may be used in spying against any country or has been involved in the hacking of important government websites.

For instance, around 200 Nepal Government sites were down for two days on May 4 and 5, 2019 reportedly because of hacking by Chinese technicians working for China Communication Services International (CCSI), a Chinese company and subsidiary of Huawei, a telecommunication giant, which police sources said has the capacity to destroy critical and strategic areas of Nepal.

On May 6, a joint team from Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police and Nepal Police cyber bureau personnel in plain clothes raided the office of CCSI at Naxal in Kathmandu to find around 25 Chinese technicians working in a rented office near the Nepal Police Headquarters.

Police sources told media that the raid ‘triggered panic’ among the technicians, with some packing their laptops and fleeing the scene.