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  By Christophe Renard December 27, 2013

A new legal case shakes Taiwanese company HTC which were already plagued by financial difficulties and redundancies in America. Indeed, a local prosecutor indicted several of its employees, for selling information on future HTC Sense . Let us therefore a point on the case of industrial espionage.

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case dating from last August, involved a complaint that the Taiwanese company had conducted against several of its employees, including the principal designer HTC Thomas Dog . These people have tried to monetize among other trade secrets, including in particular information on the operation of HTC Sense 6.0, with partners in mainland China. Face justice, all employees complained acknowledged the facts and explained that they intended to leave the group to set up their own company, a meeting with their partners were also held in Beijing this purpose.

However, the story does not stop there for Thomas Chien, because charged with a share for the same charges, is also accused of having inflated ratings of suppliers of the company, and to have created false spending a total of 1.12 million . Investigators were also found in his personal car near a quarter of this amount in cash and had confiscated a quarter earlier.

Unlike his colleagues, Thomas Dog chose to remain in denial for some of his crimes, which also particularly irritated the investigators handling the case, which also advise in the report submitted to the court, cure the sanction as possible. The accused may therefore a sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine ranging from $ 100,000 to $ 1.6 million .

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