INDIANAPOLIS: A former Indiana scientist accused of illegally sending trade secrets worth US$300 million to China and Germany was ordered detained Tuesday on rare charges of economic espionage.
A federal indictment unsealed in Indianapolis alleges that 45-year-old Kexue Huang, who was born in China, passed on proprietary information about the development of organic pesticides to Hunan Normal University while he worked as a researcher for Dow AgroSciences in Indiana from 2003 to 2008.
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