According to media reports, a case of theft of secret technology of American company Tesla, the world’s largest electric car maker, has come to light. Two persons have been accused in this case. Out of which one person has been arrested while the identity of the other has also been revealed. What other information has been received in this entire matter. Let us know.
According to media reports, two people have been accused of stealing the secret technology of Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer. Along with this, one person has also been arrested. When he and another partner together were trying to sell secret battery manufacturing technology, which was related to Tesla.
Arrested while trying to sell Tesla information
According to reports, federal prosecutors have asked a judge in Brooklyn to deny bail to Klaus Fugbel in the trade secret theft case. The accused was arrested when he was trying to sell the technology for making battery parts by meeting an undercover agent.
Arrested accused Canadian citizen
Information has been given by the Federal Authority that a 58 year old man has been arrested from Long Island on Tuesday morning. Which has been identified as Claus Flugbel. He is a Canadian-born person who lived in China. The agency got information about this after which an undercover agent was sent to the meeting posing as a businessman. The federal prosecutor has demanded from the judge that the accused Klaus should not be granted bail in the case of stealing trade secrets. However, no statement has yet come from the defense side in this regard. The second person has been identified as Shao. He is a 47 year old citizen of China.
Both had important information
According to reports, the technology the two men were trying to sell is Tesla’s secret battery technology. Earlier, both the persons were employees in a Canadian company named Hibar System. This Canadian company was in the field of battery manufacturing technology for electric vehicles. Due to which both the accused had the technology, drawings and many important information related to it.
Canadian arrested for stealing secret to speedy Tesla battery production, say feds https://t.co/iB6NsVpsGj pic.twitter.com/f8XuvhuUQQ
— Eric Vanderburg (@evanderburg) March 20, 2024Information received like this
Prosecutors said the two accused set up a company in China in mid-2020. Expanded it to Canada, Germany and Brazil. The special thing is that several million dollars were spent on the research and development of this technology. Both the accused were trying to sell this technology through ads on Google and posts and videos on other social media. After which the undercover agent met with the second accused Shao in the month of September and showed interest in buying the information. After the meeting between the two, the accused Flugbel and the agent agreed to meet in New York to further discuss the deal.
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