A former Corning Inc. scientist has been charged in connection with an alleged scheme to steal technology from a government-funded project he was working on and transfer it to China.
According to the recently unsealed indictment, Wang, who worked for the company from 1998 to 2019, was assigned as the lead scientist to work on a project initiated and partly funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Prosecutors allege that in July 2016, Wang, without permission, downloaded the DARPA project files, including information on the manufacture of the laser fibers, onto his personal drive.
At the time, Wang and an unnamed business partner were negotiating with several Chinese authorities in the northern megacity of Tianjin about establishing a laser fiber research and development company, according to the indictment.
Prosecutors also allege that Wang carried export-controlled DARPA project data on his laptop on at least two trips to China in 2017.
The proposal was to manufacture the same laser fiber developed by the DARPA project.
In June 2020, Chinese professor Zhang Hao was found guilty of economic espionage and stealing wireless technology from U.S. companies for the benefit of the Chinese regime.
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