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Criminal,
Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Sep. 3, 2020

Chinese citizen sentenced to 18 months for stealing American semiconductor secrets

David Anderson, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, said in a statement the sentence properly “recognizes the seriousness of the offense.”

Hao Zhang, a Chinese citizen and permanent U.S. resident, must serve 18 months in prison for conspiring with China to steal proprietary information from American semiconductor companies, a federal judge ruled.

U.S. District Judge Edward Davila delivered the sentence on Tuesday following a four-day bench trial on charges of economic espionage and trade secrets theft....

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