Greed : Ex-GM worker, husband accused of stealing secrets




A former General Motors engineer and her husband conspired to steal trade secrets about hybrid vehicles and use the information to make private deals with Chinese competitors, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.


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Shanshan Du and Yu Qin, both of Troy, were indicted on conspiracy and other charges. They had been under investigation for years and were charged in 2006 with destroying documents, a case that was dropped while a broader probe was ongoing.

The indictment says Du, who was hired at GM in 2000, purposely sought a transfer in 2003 to get access to hybrid technology and began copying documents by the end of that year.

In 2005, she copied thousands of documents, five days after getting a severance offer from the automaker, according to the indictment.




Source: Greed : Ex-GM worker, husband accused of stealing secrets

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