Hong Kong/Seoul CNN —South Korean prosecutors have indicted a former Samsung executive for allegedly working with competitors who tried to build a copycat semiconductor factory in China.
In a Monday statement, the Suwon district prosecutor’s office said it had charged a 65-year old former employee of what it called “Company A” over data theft.
Prosecutors said the executive then tried to use that information to build a “duplicate” plant in the Chinese city of Xi’an, about 1.5 kilometers (one mile) away from a Samsung semiconductor factory.
News agency Yonhap identified the second company as SK Hynix, another South Korean chip giant.
Reuters reported that the attempt to build the new plant using Samsung data between 2018 and 2019 ended in failure due to funding issues.
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