Former Coca-Cola employee stole the company's technological secret and tried to launch production in China
Xiaorong Yu, a 59-year-old chemical scientist, also known as Shannon Yu, was sentenced to 14 years in prison and fined $200 for spying and stealing Coca-Cola's trade secrets. Writes about it Voice of America.
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Between 2012 and 2017, Yu was an employee of the company and had access to data on the chemical development of Coca-Cola along with another employee. In 2017, she was fired, after which she downloaded secret data to a USB flash drive and tried to sell it in China, and received millions of dollars in grants from the Chinese government to start the production of cans identical to Coca-Cola cans.
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The technology Yu copied involved a 2-micron thick plastic insert that was placed in metal Coca-Cola cans. She copied a set of detailed chemical recipes for plastic liners.
This technology has been valued at $120 million by experts because it minimizes the loss of beverage flavor and prevents container corrosion.
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Yu was accused of conspiring to steal trade secrets, conspiring to engage in economic espionage, keeping stolen trade secrets, economic espionage, and wire fraud. The verdict was handed down in 2022, but information about it became known only now.
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