美国司法部：华裔科学家，经济间谍：向海涛，千人计划

美国司法部：华裔科学家，经济间谍：向海涛，千人计划

美国司法部：

1月6日，

一位前孟山都中国科学家宣布，他承认自己“为中国政府勾结经济间谍活动”。

美国农业巨头孟山都
前中国科学家

一位前中国科学家是中国千人计划的获得者之一。

美国密苏里州
切斯特菲尔德
海涛乡

居住在美国密苏里州切斯特菲尔德的中国被告人Mukai

向海涛，44岁

2008年
他在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校获得博士学位并加入孟山都。

“负责数字农业、肥料和养分管理研究”，并获得三项美国专利。

2017
高技术研究员，入选“千人计划”之一。

大纪元

https://www.epochtimes.jp/2022/01/84392.html

Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Economic Espionage Conspiracy

Xiang Haitao, 44,
a Chinese national formerly residing in Chesterfield, Missouri,

pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit economic espionage.

According to court documents,
Xiang conspired to steal a trade secret

from Monsanto,
an international company based in St. Louis, for the purpose of benefitting a foreign government, namely the People’s Republic of China.

“Despite Xiang’s agreements to protect Monsanto’s intellectual property and repeated training on his obligations to do so, Xiang has now admitted that

he stole a trade secret from Monsanto, transferred it to a memory card and attempted to take it to the People’s Republic of China for the benefit of Chinese government,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen.

“With his guilty plea, Xiang is now being held accountable for this unlawful conduct.”

“Mr. Xiang used his insider status at a major international company to steal valuable trade secrets for use in his native China,” said U.S. Attorney Sayler Fleming.

“We cannot allow U.S. citizens or foreign nationals to hand sensitive business information over to competitors in other countries, and we will continue our vigorous criminal enforcement of economic espionage and trade secret laws.

These crimes present a danger to the U.S. economy and jeopardize our nation’s leadership in innovation and our national security.”

“The American worker suffers when adversaries, like the Government of China, steal technology to grow their economies,” said Assistant Director Alan E. Kohler Jr..

The FBI will continue investigating
the theft of technology from American companies because economic security is national security.

OPA | Department of Justice

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-pleads-guilty-economic-espionage-conspiracy