Ex-Motorola engineer guilty of stealing trade secrets
Ex-Motorola engineer guilty of stealing trade secrets
By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO | Wed Feb 8, 2012 6:05pm EST
(Reuters) - A former engineer at Motorola Inc who was stopped at O'Hare International Airport carrying more than 1,000 of the company's proprietary documents was found guilty of stealing trade secrets on Wednesday but cleared of engaging in economic espionage for China.
The defendant, Hanjuan Jin, was charged with illegally downloading Motorola's business secrets onto her computer and other forms of digital storage before she attempted to board a flight to Beijing on a one-way ticket on February 28, 2007.
Prosecutors alleged Jin, a Chinese-born American, intended to share the information with Sun Kaisens, a Chinese telecommunications company and supplier to the Chinese military that she worked for on the side.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/08/us-crime-motorola-idUSTRE8172AM20120208
DUIC
(167 posts)An American company that is on the ropes like Motorola losing its trade secrets to a foreign company would be devastating. Good job to the investigators that caught Hanjuan Jin.
tawadi
(2,110 posts)Sounds like a lot of luck was involved.
I'll believe the OP, but how would TSA agents even know what they were looking at and make the connection to corporate espionage? It seems there is a vital element of the story that is missing.