Defendant Zhang (Federal District Court in San Jose, Arrived at the Federal Court in San Jose, USA on October 2, 2019.
AML/FCPA: Chinese Professor Hao Zhang, conviction: arrested by spy in 2015
AML/FCPA:
Chinese professor Hao Zhang:
Chinese professor Hao Zhang was arrested and charged in 2015 in the United States.
A federal district judge in San Jose, California, found guilty of stealing trade secrets and economic espionage on 26th.
University of Southern California: Conspiracy with colleagues
In 2015, Defendant Hao Zhang was arrested while visiting Los Angeles for a meeting.
He stole US secrets and sold them to the Chinese government and the military through the Cayman Islands Paper Company.
Hao Zhang was charged with conspiring with a colleague he met at the University of Southern California.
District Court Document:
Zhang’s sentencing sentence is that economic espionage is up to 15 years in prison and 10 years in trade secret theft.
Zhang’s defense team:
He argued that Zhang’s work at Tianjin University was about new scientific knowledge, not for the national interest of China.
(Bloomberg)
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/f0a5330093fcef0784645347e2a7a3bf93060436
Chinese Professor Found Guilty in U.S. of Economic Espionage
Hao Zhang was charged in 2015 during Obama administration
Prosecutors alleged he took trade secrets from two tech firms
A Chinese professor
was found guilty by a judge of trade-secret theft and and an even more serious and rarer charge of economic espionage, marking the latest conviction in the Trump administration’s pursuit of Chinese scientists and engineers.
At an unusual in-person courtroom hearing Friday during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in San Jose, California, announced the verdict against Hao Zhang.