The plea agreement said Huang Kexue also stole secrets on enzymes for a new food product from another company, identified in a separate statement as Cargill, when he worked there in 2009. Photo: REUTERS
Chinese Scientist Sentenced For Stealing US Secrets -- The Telegraph
A Chinese scientist has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for stealing trade secrets of major US agribusiness firms to benefit China.
Huang Kexue, 46, stole secrets on organic insecticides from Dow AgroSciences, where he worked from 2003-2008, and handed them over to research students at or linked to Hunan Normal University, where he also was involved in research, the Justice Department said.
He was sentenced to 87 months in prison, after entering into a plea agreement on two counts hoping to reduce his sentence.
Huang, who was sentenced by the US District Judge William Lawrence in the Southern District of Indiana, had faced up to 25 years in prison on the two charges.
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My Comment: Stealing patents and R&D work is big money .... somethingthat the Chinese know (unfortunately) too well.
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