A Chinese intelligence officer has been convicted in US federal court of economic espionage in an alleged state-backed effort to steal technology from US and French aerospace firms, the Justice Department said.
Xu Yanjun, an official in the Jiangsu province foreign intelligence office of the Ministry of State Security, was found guilty on Friday in the Cincinnati court on two counts of conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage, and three counts relating to trade secret theft.
The economic espionage charges carry a maximum of 15 years in prison each and a fine of up to $5m, while the other charges bring up to 10 years in prison each.
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