http://news.hjnews.com/news/article_d8c60e9c-1afe-11e1-9c4d-001cc4c002e0.html By Amy Macavinta The Herald Journal November 29, 2011 A senior scientist of Frontier Scientific Inc. of North Logan has been accused of stealing proprietary information and sending it to a foreign company in what the FBI says is a rare case of industrial espionage. According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City on Nov. 10, Prabhu Mohapatra, 42, of North Logan, used his company computer to send the "recipes" for four different chemical compounds to Medchemblox in India. He was arrested Nov. 14 and is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court Dec. 8. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Mohapatra's public defender, Viviana Ramirez, said he will plead not guilty to the charge. If found guilty, he could spend up to 10 years in prison and be fined $250,000. An investigation by the FBI showed Mohapatra's brother-in-law as one of the co-founders of Medchemblox - a business that was not yet registered but did have an existing website. A special agent with the bureau said Mohapatra's activity was first observed by a co-worker, who on Oct. 25 saw him place the recipe of a chemical compound into a Word document, convert it into a PDF document and send it by attachment via his personal email account. [...] _____________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Thu Dec 01 2011 - 00:33:24 PST
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