The U.S. Department of Justice said that he would prosecute a former Apple Company engineer, who was accused of stealing Apple's autonomous driving technology and fled to China.
Comprehensive Bloomberg and Reuters reported that according to the prosecution released by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday (May 16), the former Apple engineer was 35 -year -old Wang Weibao (transliteration), who lived in California mountain viewThe city was hired by Apple in 2016.
Wang Weibao agreed to enter a Chinese company dedicated to developing autonomous driving cars in the United States before he resigned from Apple in 2017, but he notified his new job in Apple about four months.
The U.S. Department of Justice said that after Wang Weibao left Apple, Apple found that he visited a lot of proprietary data in a few days before his departure.The US Federal Agent searched his home in June 2018 and also found that his home has a lot of technologies in Apple.
The Ministry of Justice said that shortly after the search, Wang Weibao boarded a plane flying to China and fled the United States.
In addition to Apple's case, the US Department of Justice also announced the other four cases that have been suspected of stealing technology on the same day to benefit from China, Russia and Iran.
This is the first allegations and arrests carried out by the US Department of Justice and the Ministry of Commerce in February this year.The group was established to combat the stealing advanced technology and hacking activities to seek economic interests.
On the same day, the U.S. prosecutor also announced a complaint against Li Ming (transliteration), 64, and he was accused of stealing commercial secrets from the employer of the Kakhamonda Ranch in California and establishing his own enterprise in China.
In addition, the New York prosecutor also accused Qiao Xiangjiang (transliteration), 39, accusing him of using a Chinese company that was sanctioned by the United States to provide Iran to provide materials to produce large -scale devastating weapons.
