A former Chinese employee of the American Agricultural Biotechnology Giant Monsanto was sentenced to 29 months in prison for committing economic spy.
According to a statement issued by the official website of the US Department of Justice on Thursday (April 7), the 44 -year -old Chinese citizen Xiang Hai Tao was employed by Hai Tao from 2008 to 2017Climate Corporation.
He acknowledged the Chinese government's business secrets (Mengshan Metropolitan R & D can help farmers to increase agricultural output agricultural software) in January this year in the court of Missouri.
Statement said that in addition to being sentenced to 29 months, Xiang Haitao will also be fined $ 150,000 (about S $ 204,298) and for three years after being released.
Olson, assistant chief prosecutor of the National Security Bureau of the US Department of Justice, said in a statement: "Xiang Haitao conspired to steal important commercial secrets and allow himself to achieve unfair advantages with the People's Republic of China.It is a serious crime that pose a threat to the American competitive advantage. The National Security Bureau is committed to the responsibility to the beneficiaries of the foreign government. "Before he was preparing to fly to China, he found an algorithm developed by Mengshan capital and his subsidiaries to develop intellectual property rights.He was allowed to return to China, but was arrested after returning to the United States in November 2019.
Xiang Haitao won the position of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in August 2016, and since June 2017, he has been a researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Foam Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.According to the official website of the National Key Laboratory of Soil and Agriculture, Xiang Haitao obtained a bachelor's degree from Nanjing Forestry University, and 2008 at the University of Illinois at the University of Illinois obtained a PhD in engineering.
