Chinese GM pulled the couple on trial for stealing the secret hybrid

- A former employee of GM China accused of stealing confidential documents on the application of hybrid technology to develop vehicles of the same type in the Mainland.Shanshan Du had surreptitiously copied the entire information of the GM (General Motors) in terms of control of motor gasoline hybrid electric vehicles (hybrid) and then smuggled out of hiding her husband, a prosecutor said light this court in Detroit.
Qin, Du husband then is to use these documents to sell or to find employment opportunities in GM's main rival in China Chery Automobiles, the court announced.
"GM said the value of this top-secret documents to more than $ 40 million. There is no other way to understand this behavior in addition to stealing and cheating, "prosecutor Michael Martin said."The defendant here is not only mate with each other, but also is a partner in the business and even a partner in crime," the prosecutor loudly accused.

                                             Spouses defendants Qin, Du
Her husband's defense lawyer Du soon countered that there is no evidence that the client has used the material on for the purpose charged, because no company other than GM can apply the technology exclusive that only GM can be integrated into your car.
Meanwhile Du's lawyer added that this is not stealing as prosecutors claimed that only 18 of the 16 thousand are considered confidential information not to mention a whole load of this document there is a marked "secret" are closed.
"If companies do not protect their documents or at least let people know that security can not be considered as acting intentionally steal because actually there is no secret that here at all," the This lawyer said.
Themselves Enter the U.S. Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI) has also jumped into this incident happened in 2005 with the multi-dimensional investigation and with various objects.
While there is evidence that the documents that former electronic engineer of GM copied to your hard drive for work purposes, other evidence also shows that after that transaction has email and phone of Chinese couples to local carmakers Cherry with purchase information content.
The reason GM knows this is a problem when the company Controlled Power company, where Du husband works found a sack filled with hard information of this GM that he left the company. Soon Controlled Power took the initiative to tell the GM about the full hide this monitoring.
Dramatic trial is sure to last for at least 3 weeks due to the complex nature and multiple items to be verified, the prosecutor said.
China has repeatedly condemned for using the generation Chinese born and raised in the United States economic espionage with a series of similar cases as GM were uncovered.