SPY: Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Stealing Trade Secrets From US Petroleum Company
By Jose Nino on 11/15/2019
On Tuesday, November 12, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a Chinese national pled guilty to stealing trade secrets from a U.S. company.
Hongjin Tan, a 35-year-old legal permanent resident in America and a Chinese national, pled guilty to multiple charges, which included the theft and an “unauthorized transition of trade secrets†from a U.S. petroleum company he worked for.
“Tan’s guilty plea continues to fill in the picture of China’s theft of American intellectual property,†Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers said in a Department of Justice statement released on Tuesday.
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