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Wed Feb 1, 2012, 06:12 AM Feb 2012

Exclusive: U.S. accuses China of instigating plot against DuPont

(Reuters) - Chinese government representatives directed a U.S. businessman to obtain valuable technology manufactured by chemical giant DuPont and were seeking on Wednesday to keep him in jail ahead of his trial on charges relating to trade secret theft, U.S. prosecutors say in newly released court documents.

Walter Liew, a U.S. citizen, and his wife, Christina Liew, each were indicted last year by a Northern California grand jury on three counts, including witness tampering, making a false statement and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses and evidence, according to court documents.

A hearing on bail is scheduled for Walter Liew on Wednesday in U.S. federal court in San Francisco as prosecutors try to keep him behind bars.

According to court documents, Walter Liew paid at least two former DuPont engineers for assistance in designing chloride-route titanium dioxide, also known as TiO2. DuPont is the world's largest producer of the white pigment used to make a range of white-tinted products, including paper, paint and plastics.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/01/us-china-usa-dupont-idUSTRE8100OP20120201

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