Chinese scientist Huang Kexue jailed for trade theft

[Roybot]

A Chinese scientist who admitted to stealing trade secrets from two US firms has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.

Huang Kexue admitted in October that he stole secrets on a pesticide and a new food product and sent them to China and Germany.Huang previously faced a maximum of 25 years in prison.
The case is the latest in a series of similar allegations about trade secrets being handed to Chinese companies.

Huang was born in China but holds permanent resident status in the US. He has pleaded guilty to stealing secrets from Dow AgroSciences, where he worked from 2003 to 2008, and Cargill Inc. According to court papers, Cargill estimated the value of the information stolen at $12m (£7.7m), while Dow gave no specific figure, beyond saying it amounted to millions of dollars.

Insider status

In his plea, Huang admitted giving the information to a Chinese university, as well as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the 863 Program, a Chinese government initiative to develop and acquire high-level technologies.

"Huang used his insider status at two of America's largest agricultural companies to steal valuable trade secrets for use in his native China," said Lanny Breur, assistant attorney general for the US Department of Justice.

The sentence came on the same day that the Wall Street Journal reported Chinese hackers had stolen information from the US Chamber of Commerce, focusing on the group's Asian policy team.

There have been growing concerns in the US that corporate trade secrets are being stolen and handed over to competitors in China.

Earlier in 2011, a Chinese engineer was found guilty of stealing secrets from Ford Motors to try and get a job with Chinese car manufacturers. In 2010 another couple was charged with trying to sell secrets about General Motors' hybrid vehicles to China's Chery Automobile Company.

Business have repeatedly raised concerns about these issues, saying that not only do such moves hand sensitive information to competitors, they also given them an unfair advantage by saving them millions of dollars in research and development costs.

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[Abhishek_]

like people say, stealing becomes an addiction.
But who cares about ethics, as long as you can make money.

 

[gagaga]

hat off to you, Huang Kexue, you've made ur sacrifices to the well-being of Chinese people.. the sooner Chinese company being able to serve China domestic market, the better of Chinese people's life..

 

[LetsGetRowdy]

like people say, stealing becomes an addiction.
But who cares about ethics, as long as you can make money.

in a world dominated by former colonists and imperialists who enslaved and exploited the entire world, you simply cannot play "fair" with them. you need to level the playing field when dealing with westerners. one day when india realizes this, the west too will see you as their biggest enemy.

 

[SinoChallenger]

in a world dominated by former colonists and imperialists who enslaved and exploited the entire world, you simply cannot play "fair" with them. you need to level the playing field when dealing with westerners. one day when india realizes this, the west too will see you as their biggest enemy.

india has been stealing everything it can since it was created by the British colonialists. They've already busted up gangs of indian inside traders on Wall Street.

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[kawaraj]

yet some indian members choose to side with the perpetrators, instead of the victims. that's a hell Stockholm syndrome affliction.

back to the topic, the west won't tolerate third world nations catch up with them in technologies. this is what I said the technology oppression to prevent any developing nations to get in to their domination of the world. admittedly there are legal issues here, but it's more skewed to the political part.

(the legal issue per se is not fair, they came first, the set the rules, sadly)

 

[Big Boss]

Its a open fact that chine have build upon faking, copying and stealing everything possible.

 

[kawaraj]

Its a open fact that chine have build upon faking, copying and stealing everything possible.

yeah, the US has tech embargo against China since when, 1989?

no, it actually bar tech transfer to China since ever.

that's a shame of human civilization. just for selfish reason, they place the largest scale of systematic tech embargo in human history. those chinese themselves are even brainwashed.