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Schaumburg woman indicted in theft of business secrets intended for China
She is accused of attempting to take confidential telecommunications documents from Chicago-area company
By Vikki Ortiz
Tribune reporter
4:29 PM CDT, April 2, 2008
A Schaumburg woman has been indicted on charges that she stole business trade secrets and attempted to take them to China, which could have cost a suburban telecommunications company more than $600 million over the next three years, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Hanjuan Jin, 37, was charged with three counts of theft of trade secrets, authorities said. An indictment was returned Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Chicago.
Authorities stopped Jin on Feb. 28, 2007, during a random search at O'Hare International Airport. Agents discovered $30,000 in Jin's luggage, as well as more than 1,000 technical documents—paper copies and on her computer hard drive—that were marked confidential, authorities said.
Authorities said Jin began working for a telecommunications company based in the Chicago suburbs in 1998. In February 2006, she took a medical leave of absence. Between June and November of that year, she accepted employment with a company in China where she was to work on developing communications software.
On Feb. 23, 2007, Jin told the Chicago-area company that she was ready to return from medical leave. But one day later, she purchased a one-way ticket to China for a flight Feb. 28, 2007, officials said.
When Jin reported to work on Feb. 26, she allegedly downloaded more than 200 technical documents from the company's secure internal computer network. Company surveillance tapes show that Jin returned to the business at about 9 p.m., officials said. She e-mailed a resignation the next day to her manager, according to the indictment.
The companies were not identified.
She is accused of attempting to take confidential telecommunications documents from Chicago-area company
By Vikki Ortiz
Tribune reporter
4:29 PM CDT, April 2, 2008
A Schaumburg woman has been indicted on charges that she stole business trade secrets and attempted to take them to China, which could have cost a suburban telecommunications company more than $600 million over the next three years, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Hanjuan Jin, 37, was charged with three counts of theft of trade secrets, authorities said. An indictment was returned Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Chicago.
Authorities stopped Jin on Feb. 28, 2007, during a random search at O'Hare International Airport. Agents discovered $30,000 in Jin's luggage, as well as more than 1,000 technical documents—paper copies and on her computer hard drive—that were marked confidential, authorities said.
Authorities said Jin began working for a telecommunications company based in the Chicago suburbs in 1998. In February 2006, she took a medical leave of absence. Between June and November of that year, she accepted employment with a company in China where she was to work on developing communications software.
On Feb. 23, 2007, Jin told the Chicago-area company that she was ready to return from medical leave. But one day later, she purchased a one-way ticket to China for a flight Feb. 28, 2007, officials said.
When Jin reported to work on Feb. 26, she allegedly downloaded more than 200 technical documents from the company's secure internal computer network. Company surveillance tapes show that Jin returned to the business at about 9 p.m., officials said. She e-mailed a resignation the next day to her manager, according to the indictment.
The companies were not identified.
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