Hao Zhang also faced charges related to stealing trade secrets and sharing them with the Chinese military and the government.
Hao Zhang, a university professor from China, has been convicted of trade secret theft and economic espionage after a seven-year-long trial. He will be spending 18-months in jail for stealing IP from two US firms.
Zhang is part of a group of six Chinese nationals, all of whom were charged in 2015 for stealing trade secrets and economic espionage. Five accused are still not arrested, and probably are hiding in China. Zhang, however, decided to re-enter the US and was immediately arrested.
According to the Department of Justice’s press release, the group worked for state-backed Tianjin University and several other organizations since 2006-07 while residing in the US for research purposes.
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A crackdown against Chinese nationals stealing intellectual property from American organizations was started by former US President Barack Obama in 2015 and continued under the Trump administration. Chinese scholars and scientists residing in the US for research purposes were the main targets of this crackdown.
Zhang Hao – Image credit: Global Times
Reportedly, Zhang was accused of stealing and selling American trade secrets with the Chinese military and the government. He collaborated with a colleague studying at the University of Southern California, namely Wei Pang, a ..
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