Former GM Engineer Indicted for Selling Trade Secrets to China

[Chris_]

http://www.boston.com/cars/news/articles/2010/07/22/ex_gm_worker_husband_accused_of_stealing_secrets/

DETROIT—A former General Motors engineer and her husband conspired to steal trade secrets about hybrid technology and use the information to make private deals with Chinese competitors, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.

Shanshan Du and Yu Qin, both of Troy, were indicted on conspiracy, fraud and other charges. They had been under scrutiny for years and were charged in 2006 with destroying documents sought by investigators, a case that was dropped while a broader probe was pursued.

The indictment says Du, who was hired at GM in 2000, purposely sought a transfer in 2003 to get access to hybrid technology and began copying documents by the end of that year.

In 2005, she copied thousands of documents, five days after getting a severance offer from the automaker, according to the indictment.

By that summer, Qin was telling people he had a deal to provide hybrid technology to Chery Automobile, a GM competitor in China, the indictment says. The couple had set up their own company, Millennium Technology International.

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Balance at link......

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[rich_t]

Yet politicians can do pretty much the same for campaign contributions.

 

[Randy]

Yet politicians can do pretty much the same for campaign contributions.

 

The Chinese missed the good old days when their contributions bought access to the highest level. Nowadays,  I mean PSHHT......what can you do with a Secretary of State anyways?

[JohnnyReb]

The Chinese missed the good old days when their contributions bought access to the highest level. Nowadays,  I mean PSHHT......what can you do with a Secretary of State anyways?

Secret circuits to a secret missile system....no big deal.

Secrets to the circuits of an auto cigarette lighter....you could get life.