A formerDuPontscientist in the US has been
jailed for stealing the company's trade secrets.
Former DuPont employee Gary Min was sentenced in a US court to
18 month's jail and ordered to pay a £15,000 fine after downloading
trade secrets onto his laptop.
Min downloaded thousands of documents unrelated to his job at
DuPont shortly after being given a job offer by a rival company. He
continued to download documents on to a corporate laptop given to
him after he joined that company, the court heard.
"DuPont fully supports the sentence handed down to former
employee Gary Min for theft of trade secrets. As a science company,
DuPont takes aggressive measures to protect its unique and
confidential technologies," said DuPont.
"Although we are troubled that Mr Min violated the trust placed
in him, the criminal and civil actions brought against him
demonstrate the actions that we will take to preserve the integrity
of our proprietary science and technology for the benefit of DuPont
shareholders and customers," DuPont said.
DuPont brought in the FBI to investigate the high number of
certain documents being downloaded in 2005. Min was charged in
2006.