But Fairfaxmedia claims to have obtained documents revealing that phone calls were made to two Melbourne brothels in 2006 from rooms hired in his name.
So far, FairfaxMedia is following the lead of most other news organizations with the view that the benefits of sharing content with Google and other search engines outweigh the downside.
Australia's FairfaxMedia reported last week that Zygier was one of at least three dual Australian-Israeli citizens being investigated by the main Australian spy agency ASIO in early 2010 over suspicions that they were spying for Israel.
According to a FairfaxMedia, one of the outlets to interview Mr Ren, he told reporters that he was confident that no staff member of Huawei would engage in spying even if asked to do so by Chinese agencies.