Sunday, November 9, 2008

Intel employee theft of trade secrets - the value of 1,000,000,000

33-year-old man, the city of Worcester, Massachusetts Biswamohan Pani recently been sent to the court because the alleged theft of Intel's worth about 10 billion U.S. dollars of trade secrets.

Pani on August 28 this year, was charged with a crime of theft of trade secrets,

According to prosecutors, said, Pani in the work Intel has told boss said to go on vacation the week, taking in a hedge fund to find new work, but he switched to Intel rival AMD, where it spent the holiday period The four-day period from Intel's plant is located in the city of Hudson, where to download a large number of commercial confidentiality.

FBI this year on July 1 searched Pani's home and found that eight Intel has been classified as secret, confidential or top secret documents, according to the research and development costs if calculated in terms of value as high as 10 million.

If convicted, Pani may have to be in prison last few decades, at least at the same time faced with hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.

Prosecutors also said that although the matter related to AMD, but the latter does not require Pani to steal secret, but also do not know if he downloaded the information.

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