We all know that the Chinese automotive industry is booming and we are also familiar with some Chinese cars with designs that we have seen elsewhere. Here is an interesting piece of news regarding the topic. It has been reported that a former Ford engineer is being charged for selling company secrets to Chinese auto makers.
The person in question is Xiang Dong Yu who served for Ford between 1997 and 2007. Yu was recently arrested at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport after returning from an overseas trip. Apparently, Yu made copies of nearly 4,000 documents before leaving the Mustang maker. A year later in 2008, he tried to secure a job with the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation by offering vital information from Ford. Yu eventually found a job in Beijing Automotive Corporation but it is unclear if he leaked out any information to the company.
He now faces five counts of theft of trade secrets, attempted theft of trade secrets and unauthorized access to a protected computer. The damage? Well, Mr Yu could be sentenced to 5-10 years in prison as well as a $250,000 fine for each charge.
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wow….
A Chinese guy, worked in an American company for 10 years and then went back to China automotive. Isn't it obvious? lol
What is obvious? To go back and work at your home town? =.="
S$ as in Singapore dollar?
Well well, just how low can one get… It's funny to think that many people ie Malaysians-feeling-their-right-for-free-and-fair-market-robbed endorses fully of such practices. Moral and ethics thrown out of the window for the sake of wanting ultra cheap Chinese car, yet, bashing the govt for being morally guilty.
Doesn't sound like free and fair to me then. It's cheat and selfish in disguise.
Oh wait, come to think of it, I believe there will be counters saying they can't even throw out of the window cuz their power window rosak lolololol
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no, the power windows is not rosak, but they dont have power windows, still ice kacang handle and it could not even come down fully… haha…
Just like McLaren-Ferrari drama. I wonder wheter Perodua's workers have been charged with this too because of the leak new not-so MPV last month. i heard he has lost his job.
typical chinese industrial espionage. don't worry…big brother china will pay off whatever charges to be brought against this guy as china has almost bottomless foreign and debt reserves.
guess future ford offerings made him 'cannot tahan already' and started leaving paper trails.
"We all know that the Chinese automotive industry is booming and we are also familiar with some Chinese cars with designs that we have seen elsewhere"
Chinese should ask the Koreans how do they do it, Koreans car design also "we have seen elsewhere" but never get charged as there's no papertrail.
typical of them..
shame on the Chinese, but not as shameful as Proton for robbing the public in daylight….XDD
This is nothing new with Chinese auto industry. I'm sure I have read about this kind activity in pass few years, ans it will not stop just with ford.
How bout syed zainal..hehe
not surprised … typical chinaman!
Despite being a Chinese myself, these China men seriously give out bad impression. They can be so low that they would kill to get what they want. All I can say is, the least they have the will.
I've never been a fan of China automakers cause first of all, they steal designs like the one that resembled a mercedes and recently, an SUV where its taillamp resemble that of BMW X5. 2ndly, they can never design a good looking car. look at their trucks, K-car, sedans and SUVs….i wonder how would their F1 car would look like if they took up on F1 motorsports. i bet it must be driven by chopstick driveshafts.
come on la China men. lebih kurang mcm Msia juga, only have the talent to build fast profit making products.
I thought not too long ago another chinese guy got caught selling us missle secrets to china?
I think this is the last resort US have, keep on blaming China this and that. What human right? ….Taiwan?…..Tibet….copy car? All these are bullshits. You copied China paper making technique, fire works technology, explosive knowhow…..blah…blah…blah, Did China mention anything about this. Now because you owe China too much money, think about dirty tactic again???
i think the mclaren-ferrari spygate scandal is worse, ford is trying their luck here…
thats a nice car right there by ford.
good job. china is our enemy.
So, the only one held accountable is the "spy", not the receiving company, nor the receiving country? What about conspiracy, aiding and abetting, receiving stolen [goods], theft, IP violations, etc?
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