American couple charged with supplying GM secrets to the Chinese
From ABC News:
In the latest in a flurry of industrial espionage cases, a Michigan couple has been accused of stealing $40 million worth of trade secrets from General Motors and selling them to a Chinese car maker.
Shashan Du, 51, and her husband Yu Qin, 49, appeared in federal court on Thursday for arraignment on charges punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment and heavy fines upon conviction.
The couple, who have been under investigation since 2006, is charged with four crimes including conspiracy to possess trade secrets without authorization, unauthorized possession of trade secrets, and wire fraud.
The industry documents allegedly stolen and sold involved GM’s research into its hybrid vehicles, according to court documents. GM estimates the value of the stolen documents to be close to $40 million.
“We’ve unfortunately had a few of these incidents occur over the past few years,” Sandra Berchtold of the FBI Detroit office told ABC News. “Michigan is a big area of growing technology, especially in the automotive industry.”
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Paultan.org wrote about a former GM engineer and her husband (?! Female engineer?!) sell GM’s secrets to Chery Automobile.
Have you never seen a female engineer before? This is 2010 you know, not 1910.
1. They were a Chinese couple.
2. You left out the fact that the recipient was Chery.
Chery’s out of North American market forever; GM will be filing patent infringement and theft of trade secret lawsuits on any Chery hybrid and EV models that would make it to the US based on this case.
Not in the original article, but mentioned in others.
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