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That person said Canicula's customers there included three major telecommunications companies.
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It announced that Canicula had "totally stopped operating" in Syria two months before.
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Huawei declined to answer any questions about the transfer or whether it is related to Canicula.
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Reuters also discovered that a Middle Eastern lawyer said Huawei conducted operations in Syria through Canicula.
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US investigators are aware of Canicula's connection to Syria, according to a person familiar with the probe.
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Huawei has maintained the two are independent: equipment seller Skycom Tech Co Ltd and shell company Canicula Holdings Ltd.
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According to Mauritius company records, Canicula's registered address is a local company called Multiconsult Ltd. An employee there declined to answer any questions.
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In November of that year, all of Skycom's shares were transferred to a company called Canicula Holdings Ltd, which is registered in Mauritius.
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The Financial Services Commission in Mauritius, where Canicula remains registered, declined to release any of its records to Reuters, saying they were confidential.
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But Skycom records filed in Hong Kong, where the company was registered, show that its shares were transferred in November 2007 to Canicula.
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Syrian connection Until two years ago, Canicula had an office in Syria, another country that has been subject to US and European Union sanctions.
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Records in Hong Kong show that Skycom was voluntarily liquidated in June 2017 and that Canicula was paid about $US132,000 as part of the resolution.
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Canicula had an office in Damascus and operated in Syria on behalf of Huawei, another person said.
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These data suggest, in S. canicula, different olfactory neuron types send projections to the olfactory bulb with a segregated distribution, as observed in other vertebrates.