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               California Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Espionage

   by VOA News

   A court in California has sentenced a chemical engineer to 15 years in
   prison and fined him $28.3 million for stealing trade secrets from U.S.
   industrial chemical maker DuPont to help a state-owned Chinese
   company.

   At Thursday's sentencing, U.S. district judge Jeffrey White said Walter
   Liew, a naturalized citizen, had "turned against his adopted country
   for greed."

   Liew was convicted earlier this year of receiving $28 million from
   companies controlled by the Chinese government in exchange for Dupont's
   pigment technology, used for whitening a long list of everyday items.

   The judge also fined Liew's engineering company about $19 million.
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