{"id":2307,"date":"2019-02-15T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackopspartners.com\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2019-02-15T16:37:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:37:03","slug":"ex-coca-cola-engineer-charged-with-stealing-secrets-for-chinese-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/ex-coca-cola-engineer-charged-with-stealing-secrets-for-chinese-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Coca-Cola Engineer Charged With Stealing Secrets For Chinese Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US national You Xiaorong allegedly stole technology for valuable BPA-free packaging jointly owned by several companies, including a former “Atlanta-based” employer that was unnamed in the indictment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A former senior engineer at Coca-Cola was indicted Thursday in Tennessee for stealing trade secrets worth an estimated $120 million to give to a Chinese company, the Justice Department announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US national You Xiaorong allegedly stole technology for valuable BPA-free packaging jointly owned by several companies, including a former “Atlanta-based” employer that was unnamed in the indictment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A spokeswoman for Coca-Cola, whose headquarters is in Atlanta, declined to comment on the case but confirmed that You previously worked for the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Because this is a pending legal matter, it would not be appropriate for us to comment further,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the indictment, You conspired with Chinese national Liu Xiangchen and an unnamed relative of Liu to steal formulations for food packing coatings that are free of the widely-used bisphenol-A chemical, which scientists have discovered in recent years is harmful to human health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alternatives to BPA are scarce and highly valuable in the food packing industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liu wanted the technology for his company, which was planning to develop production lines for BPA-free packing, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In exchange, he offered You a job and also promised to help her win one of China’s highest awards for research and innovation, the “Thousand Talents” award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prestigious prize honors Chinese who return from study and work abroad bringing back with them technology that will advance China’s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US intelligence officials say the program also aims to encourage Chinese abroad to steal technology to bring to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You “is accused of an egregious, premeditated theft and transfer of trade secrets worth more than $100 million for the purpose of setting up a Chinese company that would compete with the American companies from which the trade secrets were stolen,” said J. Douglas Overbey, US Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Unfortunately, China continues to use its national programs, like the ‘Thousand Talents,’ to solicit and reward the theft of our nation’s trade secrets and intellectual property.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See more at <\/em>NDTV<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US national You Xiaorong allegedly stole technology for valuable BPA-free packaging jointly owned by several companies, including a former “Atlanta-based” employer that was unnamed in the indictment. A former senior engineer at Coca-Cola was indicted Thursday in Tennessee for stealing trade secrets worth an estimated $120 million to give to a Chinese company, the Justice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}