Tuesday Jun 13, 2023
Examiners in South Korea said Tuesday that a 65-year-old previous leader of programming behemoth Samsung was captured under the charges of taking data worth huge number of dollars to lay out a chip manufacturing plant in China, revealed AFP.
As per the examiners, the previous worker purportedly took the organization's manufacturing plant diagrams and clean-room plans from 2018 and 2019.
The suspect fruitlessly attempted to set up a copycat creation office in the Chinese city of Xian where Samsung as of now has a chip production line, said the Suwon locale examiner's office.
Specialists didn't recognize the kept individual whose preliminary is anticipated.
The taken data is viewed as South Korea's public center innovation — an order demonstrating likely mischief to public safety and the economy whenever uncovered abroad.
The chips or semiconductors have turned into an area of savage rivalry between the US and China, from making to its provisions.
Examiners additionally noticed that he had been in guardianship for quite a while and was officially charged Monday.
They portrayed him as a "top master in semiconductor producing, who had worked in the business for quite a long time."
Specialists said the data supposedly designated in the burglary would have been actually worth 300 billion won ($236 million) to Samsung.
Examiners said in a proclamation Monday: "a serious wrongdoing can adversely affect our monetary security by shaking the groundwork of the homegrown semiconductor industry when rivalry for chip creation is heightening consistently/"
"The semiconductor business represented 16.5% of South Korea's complete commodities in 2022... what's more, is a public safety resource."
There have been six others who were additionally charged in their associated contribution with taking mysteries.
