One of China's biggest hi-tech companies has been named in a top-secret United Nations dossier of foreign companies that may face prosecution or fines for supplying weapons of mass destruction technology to Iraq.
Huawei Technologies, a Shenzhen-based company, was one of three Chinese firms named in a list of more than 150 foreign companies that broke an international embargo and sold weapons technology to Iraq, a Sunday Morning Post investigation can reveal.
The Post has obtained details of the secret 12,000-page dossier submitted by Iraq to the United Nations last December.
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council - Britain, France, Russia, the United States and China - are all named as allowing companies to sell weapons technology to Iraq.
The dossier says 24 US firms and 17 British companies sold weapons to Iraq. Other countries include Germany, which is opposed to the war, with 80; France, who vetoed the plan, with eight; Russia six; Japan five; Holland three; Belgium seven; Spain three; and Sweden two.
Big-name firms include Hewlett-Packard, Siemens and Saab.