A courtroom in Suwon, South Korea’s most populous province, sentenced a former Samsung engineer to 6 years in jail for transferring OLED expertise value about 340 million gained (about $ 24.5 million) to China. It is a main blow to Samsung, the world’s largest OLED panel maker, as its rival is getting access to trendy show expertise.
The previous researcher was on trial however was launched on bail after his arrest resulted in March, the Korea Joongang Each day reported. He was re-arrested on Thursday and sentenced. Choose Ha Sang Jae emphasised the necessity for strict punishment for many who attempt to steal the nation’s superior expertise.
The defendant had misused expertise wherein the corporate had invested closely over an extended time frame, which deserves extreme criticism. Strict punishment is important to guard the nation’s superior expertise. There weren’t robust sufficient circumstances to contemplate suspending the defendant’s sentence.
A former worker was charged final October with illegally acquiring optical programs for excimer laser annealing (ELA) expertise. This expertise is used within the manufacture of Samsung OLED panels and OCR inkjet printers. After leaving the job, the engineer based a show firm with places of work in South Korea and China, aspiring to take OLED expertise out of his firm and promote it to opponents.
Along with the previous worker, 5 different individuals who conspired with the accused have been charged in August 2020. Three of them, who labored for Samsung, have been sentenced to phrases between two and three years, and the opposite two acquired a suspended sentence.
2024-07-22 18:00:00
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