Police will not investigate Huawei leak that cost UK defence minister his job

British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson has been fired after an investigation into leaks from a secret government meeting about Chinese telecoms firm Huawei. Picture: Francisco Seco/AP

British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson has been fired after an investigation into leaks from a secret government meeting about Chinese telecoms firm Huawei. Picture: Francisco Seco/AP

Published May 4, 2019

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London - British police said they will not

probe a leak of information about Chinese telecoms company

Huawei that cost Gavin Williamson his job as defence

minister this week, as no criminal offence was committed.

Williamson strenuously denied being responsible for the

leak, but May said she had lost confidence in him, after the

Daily Telegraph newspaper reported discussions from within

Britain's National Security Council.

"I am satisfied that what was disclosed did not contain

information that would breach the Official Secrets Act,"

Britain's top counter-terrorism police officer, Metropolitan

Police assistant commissioner Neil Basu, said on Saturday.

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and Britain's Defence Minister Gavin Williamson attend a multilateral meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Georgia and Ukraine, during the NATO summit in Brussels last year. File picture: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

"The leak did not cause damage to the public interest at a

level at which it would be necessary to engage misconduct in a

public office. It would be inappropriate to carry out a police

investigation in these circumstances."

Reuters

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