A DELHI Court has summoned Huawei India CEO Li Xiongwei and four other top officials on a complaint of the Income Tax department stating the “willful failure” of providing account books and relevant documents during a search at the Chinese electronic company’s Gurugram office.

 

“The culpable mental state of the accused persons is to be presumed,” stated Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Anurag Thakur in a recent order, stating that there is sufficient material on record to summon the accused persons under 275-B and section 278-B of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (Deals punishment for failure in facilitating an authorized officer to inspect the books of account or other documents). As per the complaint, on February 15, the Income Tax department conducted a search at Huawei Communications’ Gurugram office for the verification of the books of accounts. However, during the course of the search, company CEO Li Xiongwei, Sandeep Bhatia, Amit Duggal and Long Cheng, willfully and deliberately did not comply with the department, it said.