6 Chinese charged in US trade secrets case
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THE US government has charged three Chinese professors and three other Chinese nationals with economic espionage and stealing trade secrets from two companies that develop technology often used in military technologies, the Department of Justice said yesterday.
The three professors from Tianjin University were charged with stealing source code and other proprietary information from Avago Technologies Ltd and Skyworks Solutions Inc. Avago has headquarters in San Jose, California and Singapore, and Skyworks is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.
One of the suspects, Professor Hao Zhang, 36, a former Skyworks employee, was arrested last Friday in Los Angeles, where he had just landed on a flight from China, the US Justice Department said in a statement.
Prosecutors identified the other five are Wei Pang, 35, a former Avago employee and a professor; Jinping Chen, 41, a professor and a member of the board of directors for ROFS Microsystems; Chong Zhou, 26, a Chinese citizen, Tianjin University graduate student and design engineer at ROFS Microsystems; Huisui Zhang, 34, a Chinese citizen who studied with Pang and Zhang in California; and Zhao Gang, 39, a Chinese citizen and the general manager of ROFS Microsystems.
According to an indictment, Pang and Zhang met while studying electrical engineering at a US university in Southern California and took jobs as engineers at Avago and Skyworks, respectively.
Both companies specialize in FBAR technology, which deals with radio frequencies and has numerous military as well as consumer applications.
Between 2006 and 2007, Pang and Zhang hatched a plan to start manufacturing the technology in China and met Tianjin University officials, prosecutors said. In 2009, both left the US companies to become professors at Tianjin, where they established a company, ROFS Microsystems, with their co-conspirators, according to prosecutors.
If convicted, the defendants could be sentenced to up to 50 years in prison.
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